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Malcolm X: by any means necessary : a biography
By Walter Dean Myers. 1993
Biography of the controversial man who challenged the civil rights movement and "scared America" with his anger. Discouraged in school,…
Malcolm X became a sharp-dressing street hustler who ultimately found satisfaction in the sober life-style and black nationalist philosophy of the Nation of Islam, where he became a leader and chief critic of the nonviolent tactics of Martin Luther King. Grades 5-8 and older. 1993.Chretien. v. 1: The Will To Win
By Lawrence Martin. 1995
This biography of Jean Chrétien covers the years up to 1990, just before Chrétien took over leadership of the federal…
Liberal Party. The author used more than 250 interviews with friends, family, and associates to present a complete picture of the man, warts and all. Martin follows Chrétien's career from its beginning in Shawinigan through the many portfolios Chrétien held under the prime ministership of Pierre Trudeau. 1995.John Buchan, the Presbyterian Cavalier
By Andrew Lownie. 1995
A biography of the former Governor General of Canada, a man whose careers encompassed politics and success as a novelist.…
The author portrays his life and interests, and provides a comprehensive view of British political, social and literary circles during the first half of the 20th century. 1995.Gandhi, a memoir: A Memoir
By William L Shirer. 1979
The author, a foreign correspondent and best-selling author, felt privileged to be in India when Ghandi launched the great Civil…
Disobedience movement that eventually freed his country from British rule. Favored by Gandhi’s personal friendship, Shirer became an overnight disciple. Here he writes about Mahatma’s frailties as well as his achievements. 1979.Evita: the woman with the whip
By Mary Main. 1980
Offers a portrait of the volatile, ambitious, and clever first wife of the former dictator of Argentina, Juan Peron. Evita…
is explained in terms of her birth and background, and her aggressiveness in capturing Peron and the heart of the people of Argentina. 1980.Ed Broadbent: the pursuit of power
By Judy Steed. 1988
This biography of the New Democratic Party's long-time leader, Ed Broadbent, recounts his early years in Oshawa, his university days…
and the impact of C.B. Macpherson, his divorce and remarriage, and his rise to political power. 1988.Churchill: a life
By Martin Gilbert. 1991
Gilbert chronicles Churchill's Victorian childhood, his military service, his political career, and his literary accomplishments, including a Nobel Prize. With…
access to archives and the perspective of his previous work, he also uses new material that appeared after the earlier version was published. 1991.At twilight in the country: memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
By Mel Hurtig. 1996
Mel Hurtig talks about the signal events in his active and colourful career. He began his career as a bookseller,…
and his Edmonton bookstore quickly became one of the best in the country, and later found success as both a writer and publisher. Passionate about a strong, united Canada, Hurtig also became deeply involved in politics, eventually forming the National Party of Canada. c1996.Winston Churchill: soldier, statesman, artist
By John B Severance. 1996
A portrait of the renowned prime minister of Britain, whose public life spanned the first half of the twentieth century.…
Traces his childhood at boarding school, his military years, and his political career. Depicts his indomitable spirit, leadership genius, and trenchant humour. Grades 5-8. 1996.Will: the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy
By G. Gordon Liddy. 1980
The only convicted Watergate conspirator who refused to answer questions in court or elsewhere. Here he writes about public issues…
including Watergate, personal attitudes, and his conquest of emotion. Strong language. Bestseller. 1980.Wild colonial boy: a memoir
By Patrick Reid. 1995
Born in County Donegal in Ireland, Patrick Reid moved to Canada in 1955 and soon became a figure in some…
of the most historic events in Canada since then. He relates his service during and after the Second World War and his move to Canada. In Canada, he worked in the foreign service, was involved with the creation of the new Canadian flag, the Canada-U.S.S.R. hockey series in 1972, and Vancouver's Expo 86. 1995.Washington rollercoaster
By Sondra Gotlieb. 1990
The author, whose husband was the Canadian ambassador to the United States, considers herself to be a diplomatic aberration --…
an unsophisticated, middle-class housewife who became "the unpaid manager of a small hotel". She describes the interminable round of social events and parties in Washington, and provides profiles of the Reagans and the Bushes. 1990.This side of peace: a personal account
By Hanan Ashrawi. 1995
A Christian Palestinian woman born in 1946, shortly before the establishment of modern Israel, writes about her political activism and…
personal life. She describes her intimate involvement in Palestinian politics and portrays the difficulties of Middle East negotiations. 1995.Michael Collins: a life
By James A Mackay. 1996
Biography of Ireland's hero of the civil war with Great Britain. Collins first fought in the Easter Rising of 1916,…
was arrested and, once released, joined the Sinn Fein. He rose to become the minister of finance and director of intelligence for the Irish Free State. Collins was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army at the age of thirty-one while at home in County Cork. c1996.Memoirs
By Andrei Gromyko. 1989
Gromyko spent 50 years in the Soviet government serving under every leader from Stalin to Gorbachev. A description of his…
childhood, education, courtship and marriage, and of the worldwide scope of his political acquaintances. A final chapter, written specifically for the American edition, recounts the effects of Stalin's policies and purges. 1989.The last great Frenchman: a life of General de Gaulle
By Charles Williams. 1993
A member of the British House of Lords portrays the wily, dictatorial twentieth-century leader as personally identified with his country…
and determined to maintain France as a world power. After the World War II surrender to the Nazis, de Gaulle formed the Free French, ensuring France a place at the victory table. Later as president, he resisted union with other European states and sought nuclear capability. 1993.The Kennedy legacy
By Theodore C Sorensen. 1969
An analysis of the ideas, beliefs, dreams, and hopes of John and Robert Kennedy. The author presents a philosophic study…
of their programs and also traces their similarities and differences. 1969.Robespierre
By Peter Mcphee. 2012
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic…
to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793-94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.Two Americans
By William Lee Miller. 2012
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways--except that they also…
sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri-Mississippi River Valley--in the midst of cows and wheat, pigs and corn, and grain elevators. Both were grandsons of farmers and sons of forceful mothers, and of fathers who knew failure; both were lower middle class, received public school educations, and were brought up in low-church Protestant denominations.William Lee Miller interweaves Truman's and Eisenhower's life stories, which then also becomes the story of their nation as it rose to great power. They had contrasting experiences in the Great War--Truman, the haberdasher to be, led men in battle; Eisenhower, the supreme commander to be did not. Between the wars, Truman was the quintessential politician, and Eisenhower the thoroughgoing anti-politician. Truman knew both the successes and woes of the public life, while Eisenhower was sequestered in the peacetime army. Then in the wartime 1940s, these two men were abruptly lifted above dozens of others to become leaders of the great national efforts.Miller describes the hostile maneuvering and bickering at the moment in 1952-1953 when power was to be handed from one to the other and somebody had to decide which hat to wear and who greeted whom. As president, each coped with McCarthyism, the tormenting problems of race, and the great issues of the emerging Cold War. They brought the United States into a new pattern of world responsibility while being the first Americans to hold in their hands the awesome power of weapons capable of destroying civilization.Reading their story is a reminder of the modern American story, of ordinary men dealing with extraordinary power.Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
By Nigel Nicolson. 1973
Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an…
androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even during her various love affairs with women, Vita maintained a loving marriage with Harold. Portrait of a Marriage presents an often misunderstood but always fascinating couple. "Portrait of a Marriage is as close to a cry from the heart as anybody writing in English in our time has come, and it is a cry that, once heard, is not likely ever to be forgotten. ... Unexpected and astonishing."--Brendan Gill, New Yorker. "The charm of this book lies in the elegance of its narration, the taste with which their son has managed to convey the real, enduring quality of his parents' love for each other."--Doris Grumbach, New Republic