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Roosevelt and Churchill: men of secrets
By David Stafford. 1999
Explores the relationship between the United States president Franklin Roosevelt and the British prime minister Winston Churchill before and during…
the Second World War. Explains how the two leaders shared intelligence secrets, bribed Spain to remain neutral, and trusted each other despite conflicting postwar national interests. 1999.Rogue diamonds: the rush for northern riches on Dene land
By E Bielawski. 2003
Diamonds were first discovered on the Barren Grounds near Yellowknife in 1991. in 1996 Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin gave…
Canada's first diamond mine conditional approval, subject to "significant progress in sixty days" on agreements between various companies. Ellen Bielawski was there. 2003.Roosevelt and Stalin: portrait of a partnership
By Susan Butler. 2015
Butler explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, reassessing in-depth how…
the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the world's political stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century. 2015.Biography of A.M. Nicolson who, along with T.C. Douglas and Stanley Knowles, established the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor,…
the New Democratic Party. As a young minister, Nicolson realized that the only way to alleviate the social injustices he witnessed was through political action. c1988.Rogue tory: the life and legend of John G. Diefenbaker
By Denis Smith. 1995
Biography of John Diefenbaker, one of the most enigmatic public figues in Canadian history. The author charts Diefenbaker's career as…
a lawyer on the Prairies, his entry into politics, and his controversial years as Prime Minister. Some strong language. 1995.Robert Bond: the greatest Newfoundlander
By Ted Rowe. 2017
The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often…
tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the game of politics like a gentleman, and over a period of 30 years never suffered a defeat at the polls. During his remarkable career, he built a reputation as a statesman, negotiating two trade agreements with the United States and reclaiming Newfoundland's rights to the French Shore. In the dark days following the bank crash of 1894, he personally intervened to save the country from bankruptcy. As prime minister he led a scrupulous and scandal-free administration. In private life, he was a recluse. He idolized his mother, never married, agonized over his health, and suffered a tortured relationship with his mentor William Whiteway. His place of solace was Whitbourne, where he built a magnificent country estate, complete with an elegant manor house, beautiful gardens and a working farm. This carefully researched and engaging biography delves into Bond's life and times, following him from his school days in St. John's and England to his rapid rise in politics in the 1880s and '90s and his time as prime minister in the first decade of the twentieth century. Along the way it reveals Bond's relationship with the unforgettable characters in this formative and turbulent time in Newfoundland politics. 2017.Robert Borden (The Canadians)
By Kathleen Saunders. 1978
Rivals unto death: Hamilton and Burr
By Rick Beyer. 2017
When the most notorious duel in American history took place, Alexander Hamilton was 49, a former Treasury Secretary whose meteoric…
political rise had flamed out in the wake of a humiliating sex scandal. Vice President Aaron Burr was just a year younger than Hamilton, at the top of a meteoric rise of his own in the nation's fledgling government. Explores the largely unknown three-decade dance that led to the infamous duel. Traces the rivalry back to the earliest days of the American Revolution, when both men--brilliant, restless, and barely twenty years old--elbowed their way onto the staff of General George Washington; follows them as they launch their competitive legal practices in New York City and through the insanity of the election of 1800, when Hamilton threw his support behind Thomas Jefferson in an effort to knock Burr out of the running for president; and takes them finally to the dueling grounds from which only one would emerge. 2017.In 2001, Stephen Harper reluctantly became the leader of the Canadian Alliance. A few short years later, he was the…
Prime Minister, and the shell-shocked Liberal Paul Martin was planning his retirement. What happened, to turn the political world upside down, taking Harper to the top and plunging Martin on a downward trajectory? 2006.Revolution from the heart
By Niall O'Brien. 1987
O'Brien, an Irish missionary, spent 20 years in the Philippines helping to develop "base communities" among the Christian population. His…
efforts resulted in his arrest and imprisonment under the Marcos regime on false charges of murder. 1987.Resist: 35 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice
By Veronica Chambers. 2018
Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc…
to John Lewis, these remarkable figures show us what it means to take a stand and say no to injustice, proving that any one person has the power to change the world. For Junior high readers. 2018.Revolution for dummies: laughing through the Arab Spring
By Bassem Youssef. 2017
"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"--the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt's history--chronicles his…
transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East. 2017.Tracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can re-make ourselves and…
put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction we might feel in our careers and lives. 2009.Reflected glory: the life of Pamela Churchill Harriman
By Sally Bedell Smith. 1996
Portrait of a woman the author describes as a twentieth-century courtesan who, through the shrewd use of wealth and position,…
lived in the brilliance of world luminaries in politics, media, business, and theatre. Chronicles Harriman's privileged youth, her marriages to three powerful figures, and her own political ascent to the post of ambassador to France. 1996.Rediscovering love
By Willard Gaylin. 1986
Psychiatrist Gaylin reinforces his message that one must give love, not merely want to be loved. He argues for responsibility…
and shared love that, he insists, must be extended to include caring for all people and the physical world. Gaylin believes that "our survival depends on rediscovering our need for community and, ultimately, to rediscovering love." 1986.René Lévesque (Extraordinary Canadians)
By Daniel Poliquin. 2009
René Lévesque was born into a Quebec dominated by the Catholic Church, rural values, and Anglophone control of business. He…
was part of the 1960s Quiet Revolution that saw the province become a secular society bent on economic success and, for some, political independence. A journalist, war reporter, and television host, Lévesque channeled his communication skills into politics, founded the Parti Québecois, and permanently altered Canada's political landscape. 2009.Reinventing your life: the breakthrough program to end negative behavior ... and feel great again
By Jeffrey E Young, Janet S Klosko. 1994
The authors draw on the breakthrough principles of cognitive therapy to help the readers recognise and change negative thought patterns,…
without the aid of drugs or long-term traditional therapy. They describe eleven of the most common lifetraps, provide a diagnostic test for each and offer step-by-step suggestions to help break free of the traps. 1994.Red notice: a true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice
By Bill Browder. 2015
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young…
tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption. Bestseller. 2015.Red star tattoo: my life as a girl revolutionary
By Sonja Larsen. 2016
Sonja Larsen's is a childhood in which family members come and go and where radical politics take over her mother's…
life and her own. As a teenager, Sonja finds herself embracing her mother's commitment to an organization known publicly as the National Labor Federation and privately as the Communist Party USA Provisional Wing. Over her three years embedded within the NLF's national headquarters in Brooklyn, Sonja becomes the youngest member of the organization's militia and part of its inner circle. She works sixteen-hour days and soon becomes a mistress of the Old Man, the organization's charismatic leader. As she and the other members count down the days until their American revolution is set to begin, Sonja's doubts about the cause and the Old Man become increasingly difficult to ignore. 2016.