Biography & Autobiography - Political

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See No Evil: The True Story of a Grou...

Robert Baer

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA's efforts to root ou...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Rea...

Douglas Brinkley

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley brings the riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty years later, who...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

Mrs. Kennedy and Me

Clint Hill

An enthralling, tragic, and intensely private portrayal of the captivating first lady from a man who knew her like no one elseWhen Secret Service agent Clint Hill was initially assigned to guard First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, ...

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Published: Nov 2012

Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Be...

Valerie Plame Wilson

On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, 'What I Didn't Find in Africa,' appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Nova...

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Published: Jun 2008

End the Fed

Ron Paul

In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensa...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles i...

Peter Schweizer

Provides a critique of the liberal life and the contradictions between public stances and real-life behavior among prominent liberals, including Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, George Soros, the Kennedys, Michael Moore, and Barbra Streisan...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Cheney: The Untold Story of America's...

Stephen F. Hayes

New York Times bestselling author Stephen F. Hayes delivers a comprehensive portrait of one of the most important political figures in modern times.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2007

A House in the Sky: A Memoir

Amanda Lindhout

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely wri...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just C...

John McCain

In this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life—and what matters most."I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2018

My American Journey: An Autobiography...

Colin L. Powell

The book's considerable strength lies not so much in what Powell has to say about politics or his service in Washington as in what he says about the forces that shaped his character and thinking: his parents, his early attraction to ...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2003

Marx's General: The Revolutionary Lif...

Tristram Hunt

Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

An American Life: Reissue

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan's autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his life—public and private—told in a book both frank and compellingly readable. Few presidents have accomplished more...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories Of ...

Jimmy Carter

What most surprises, and delights, is that this audio unwinds like a novel. Carter has a great gift for language, and this remembrance is sensitive, descriptive, and surprisingly earthy. He brings to life a world in which community wa...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2001

Leadership

Rudolph W. Giuliani

The former Mayor of New York City offers his own basic principles of leadership and illustrates them with stories drawn on his own experiences. While not an autobiography, this book includes references to his youth, his career as fede...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2004

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in ...

Steve Coll

In The Bin Ladens, two- time Pulitzer Prize–winner Steve Coll continues where Ghost Wars left off, shedding new light on one of the most elusive families of the twenty-first century. Rising from a famine-stricken desert into luxury,...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choice...

Ann Gerhart

An intimate portrait of Laura Bush draws on unparalleled access to the First Lady to reveal the complex woman behind the image, discussing her youth in a segregated and traditional West Texas town, the tragedy that changed her life, h...

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Published: Apr 2005

My Experiments With Truth (Listen to ...

Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi inspired the spiritual and political souls of millions of people. His concept of nonviolent resistance propelled numerous struggles throughout the world, including the civil rights movement in America. Written after hi...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2001

Winston Churchill's War Leadership

Martin Gilbert

How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters?...

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Published: Apr 2004

Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack...

Steve Dougherty

The First Biographical Portrait Ever of This Key Political Figure Written by a leading journalist and filled with more than 100 color photographs, this authoritative and up-to-the-moment new biography provides much-needed perspective ...

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Published: Feb 2007

Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's...

Jean Sasson

A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein's regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with se...

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Published: Sep 2004

Cheney: The Untold Story of America's...

Stephen F. Hayes

New York Times bestselling author Stephen F. Hayes delivers a comprehensive portrait of one of the most important political figures in modern times.

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2007

Churchill

Paul Johnson

An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. Paul Johnson's books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In Churchill, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and...

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Published: Oct 2010

Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership...

Leon Panetta

The inspiring and revelatory autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the intelligence war that killed Bin Laden, among many important roles in a legendary career It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

Robert Kennedy: His Life

Evan Thomas

In the nation's varied memory, Robert Kennedy is a contradictory figure, a hard-bullying McCarthyite obsessed with Hoffa and Castro but also a gentle, poetry-reading herald of a new age bent on stopping the Vietnam War and lifting up ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses ...

H. W. Brands

Ulysses Grant emerges in this masterful biography as a genius in battle and a driven president to a divided country, who remained fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field who made the sacrifices necessa...

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Published: Jul 2013

HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of...

Jonathan Allen

The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political c...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2014

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's D...

Jonathan Allen

It 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 tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight ...

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Published: May 2018

Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, K...

Christopher Andersen

A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and Kate Middleton—from the...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral H...

Peter Bergen

In THE OSAMA BIN LADEN I KNOW, Peter Bergen presents oral history by over 50 people who actually knew Osama bin Laden, including Osama's English teacher and his relatives. Long before September 11, 2001, Bergen was on the trail of ter...

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Published: Aug 2006

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

Carl Bernstein

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversi...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2008
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