Biography & Autobiography - Political

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At the Center of the Storm

George Tenet

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's ti...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

I Am George Washington

Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine's famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck's Common Sense. Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation o...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken

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Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017

The Revolution: A Manifesto

Ron Paul

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

Profiles in Courage

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, John F. Kennedy tells the stories of eight U.S. senators who put principle above popularity. Kennedy singled out John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Edmund G. Ross, Robert A. Taft, and four ot...

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Published: Apr 2006

The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy ...

Thurston Clarke

With new research and previously unavailable interviews, The Last Campaign provides an intimate and absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America's deepest despairs—and most fiercely held dreams—and ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

In My Time: A Personal and Political ...

Dick Cheney

For the first time, former Vice President Dick Cheney opens up about a life and career in politics that has spanned more than four decades.

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2011

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's D...

Jonathan Allen

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a...

Karl Rove

Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's presidency, recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into the White House.

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

Resilience: Reflections on the Burden...

Elizabeth Edwards

The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a ...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2010

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: An...

Alyssa Mastromonaco

New York Times bestseller!If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this...Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama ...

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Published: Mar 2018

Condi: Condoleezza Rice Story

Antonia Felix

As National Security Advisor to the President and winner of the NAACP Image Award, Condoleezza Rice has never wasted time getting where she wants to be. For the first time, this biography tells the story of her remarkable life.

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2003

Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell

Karen Deyoung

The first definitive biography of the powerful soldier-statesman follow's Colin Powell's life from his Jamaican roots and youth in the Bronx, through his decorated career in the army and as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to hi...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

Write it When I'm Gone

Tom Defrank

In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different si...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2007

The President's House: A First Daught...

Margaret Truman

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting, but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national sh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2003

The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of T...

Peter Canellos

No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's eno...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2009

The Confession

James McGreevey

In this combination political memoir and coming-out story, the former governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey combines politics, power, and desire. In order to fit in, and to rise within the New Jersey political machine, McGreevey was...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

The Obama Nation

Jerome R. Corsi

In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave ...

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2008

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a D...

Candice Millard

From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War  At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2016

Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope

Elizabeth Lightfoot

Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal ability, and poise are certain to make her one of the most intriguing and influential First Ladies in history. A woman some have tout...

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Published: Nov 2008

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, sc...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2016

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, All...

Stephen Kinzer

[Read by David Cochran Heath] A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world. During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immens...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the...

Angus Roxburgh

Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democracy many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Angus Roxburgh charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Vladimir Putin—ho...

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Published: May 2013

A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren

In A Fighting Chance,an unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't  As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go t...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2014

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillar...

Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

Red Notice: A True Story of High Fina...

Bill Browder

A New York Times bestseller: "[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the ...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2015

What A Party!

Terry Mcauliffe

A political strategist for the Clinton administration shares insider information on how key democratic initiatives unfolded behind the scenes, from the Carter-Kennedy primary contest in 1980 to Clinton's health-care reform plan of 199...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2007

Obama: From Promises to Power

David Mendell

The biography of America's hottest political superstar—Barack Obama—from a journalist who has been covering his career since his successful run for U.S. Senate. Barack Obama's meteoric rise is the stuff of legend. Since...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2007

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and...

John Preston

Now a major TV drama series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secretsÂ...

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Published: Aug 2018

First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portr...

Margaret Truman

Fascinating. . . . First Ladies is a wonderfully generous look at the women who, often against their wishes, took on what Truman calls 'the world's second toughest job.' '--The Christian Science MonitorWhether they envision their role...

Paperback
Published: Aug 1996
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