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By Françoise Giroud. 2001
Une quarantaine de chapitres enjoués et dynamiques, à partir de photos qui évoquent les épisodes d'une vie remplie. De la…
jeune script-girl à la ministre, en passant par la journaliste, sans oublier la mère, la "vieille dame indigne" se raconte avec brio. 2001.By Stan Levchenko. 1988
In 1979, Stan Levchenko became the highest-ranking KGB officer to defect to the United States. His field of expertise was…
Japan, where he had worked to obtain information and recruit Japanese sympathetic to the Soviet cause. With his wife and son still in the USSR, he now lives in hiding under an assumed name. 1988.By John D Adams. 2001
The private lives of James Douglas, first Governor of B.C., and his wife Amelia. Born of mixed blood and humble…
beginnings, both had experienced native uprisings, political changes and the gold rush. They crossed Canada by canoe, toured Europe by train; they became part of the establishment and had lifelong connections to the Hudson's Bay Company elite. 2001.By James Bartleman. 2004
From his humble origins as an Aboriginal child whose first home was a tent near a dump in Muskoka, Ontario,…
Bartleman rose to become a legend in Canada's foreign service. He served as ambassador to Cuba, Israel, South Africa, and Australia, was Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's foreign policy advisor, and is Ontario's lieutenant-governor and a member of the Order of Canada. 2004.By Jamie Swift. 1988
A self-made millionaire, Eric Kierans was head of the Commerce School at McGill University and president of the Montreal Stock…
Exchange. As a provincial, and then federal, politician, he was involved in the major issues of the 1960s and 1970s: foreign investment, free trade, provincial rights, and the War Measures Act. 1988.By Gerri Hirshey. 1984
The story of soul music through anecdotes and interviews with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Mary…
Wilson, among others. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1984,By Thomas Hauser. 1982
Un journaliste américain vivant au Chili est arrêté chez lui quelques jours après le coup d'état de 1973. Un mois…
plus tard son cadavre sera identifié à la morgue de Santiago. Sa femme et son père veulent faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Execution of Charles Horman.By Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon. 1985
Marie Gérin-Lajoie est sans doute l'une des plus belles figures du 20e siècle québécois. Première bachelière canadienne-française, elle a été…
une militante exemplaire dans la cause de l'éducation des femmes et une véritable pionnière dans le domaine du service social. 1985.By Jean Charest. 1998
Charest describes his childhood and early years, including his education, his family, and his time as a sailor and lawyer,…
leading up to his political career. This began inauspiciously with his involvement in the 1983 Tory leadership convention and culminated in his own leadership of the party. He also explains his vision for Quebec and its future and his decision to leave Ottawa to lead that province's Liberal party.By Louise Drolet, Don G Campbell. 1998
By Bernard Saint-Aubin. 1979
Ce livre raconte plus que la vie de Duplessis et son règne. Il situe l'homme dans son milieu d'origine et…
décrit les événements qui ont marqué sa vie politique et influencé ses décisions. 1979.By Martin Chalmers, Joachim C Fest. 2013
The historian shares the story of his childhood and youth during which he experienced World War II in a German…
household opposed to the Nazis, and was forced to come to terms with his father's strong political convictions. 2013. Uniform title: Ich nicht.By Sharon Carstairs. 1993
Sharon Carstairs served as the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party for nine years and was a major voice in…
the battle against the 1992 Charlottetown Accord. As well as describing her life in politics, she recalls devastating incidents of sexual abuse when she was a child and the effect it had on the rest of her life. Some descriptions of sex. 1993.By Georges Amsellem. 2014
Georges Amsellem est né au Maroc. En 1968, il immigre à Montréal en passant par Israël et la France. Il…
s'occupe d'écriture et de production de films. Son propre itinéraire le sensibilise à la condition des immigrants, au département des minorités, écartelées entre l'exil et l'espoir. Il poétise, sans nostalgie ni complaisance sur l'espace, le temps et les sables du désert qu'il fait éclater pour ensuite nous en restituer la quintessence. 2014.By René Lévesque. 1986
Autobiographie de René Lévesque, journaliste et homme politique pendant 25 ans. Quand on a été un meneur d'hommes et un…
bâtisseur de nation, il n'est certainement pas simple de raconter sa vie. René Lévesque le fait sur le ton de la confidence et dans un style très personnel nous révélant le talent d'un grand écrivain. 1986.By Hugh Segal. 1996
Segal reflects on his involvement and work with the Progressive Conservative party over the course of three decades. He looks…
back on his experiences in both provincial and federal politics, outlining what he considers to be the strengths and weaknesses of the party, and portraying some of the important political figures in Canada. 1996.By Shimon Peres. 2017
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres caps his legacy with this final book, completed shortly before his death--a majestic and…
personal exploration of modern Israel's history and values that offers insights for its future. 2017.By Geoffrey Stevens, John Crosbie. 1997
John Crosbie chronicles his involvement in politics, from provincial politics in Newfoundland to federal politics as a senior cabinet minister…
in the Mulroney governments. He tells the story behind the scenes and evaluates both his mistakes and triumphs in the unique style which gained him notoriety. Some strong language. 1997.By Roger Caratini. 2003
Beaucoup ont fait de Néron le personnage le plus inhumain et le plus "sanglant" de l'histoire romaine. L'auteur nous en…
dresse un portrait beaucoup moins caricatural: un prince ni plus ni moins cruel que ses prédécesseurs. Une biographie d'accès facile, qui n'hésite pas par moments à recourir à des procédés romanesques, mais qui demeure soucieuse de la vérité historique et qu'anime un véritable esprit de vulgarisation. Nombreuses citations d'historiens de l'Antiquité. 2003.By Véronique Tadjo. 2010
Ce titre transporte le lecteur en 1941, dans une Afrique du Sud ravagée par l'Apartheid. Au fil des pages, le…
lecteur marche dans les traces de Nelson Mandela, qui prend la parole pour raconter l'injustice vécue par son peuple, sa lutte pour offrir à ce dernier des droits égaux à ceux des Blancs, sa condamnation à la réclusion à perpétuité, les conditions d'emprisonnement inhumaines dans lesquelles il fut maintenu pendant 27 ans, la manière dont les gens se sont mobilisés à un niveau international afin de le libérer, puis sa libération et la tenue de premières élections démocratiques. Quelques descriptions de violence. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2010.