Biographie & Autobiographie / Politique

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

de Reza Kahlili

A TIME TO BETRAY

This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a secret double life reveals the heart-wrenching story of a man who spied for the American government in the ranks of the notorious Revolutionary Guards...

Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma

de Zoya Phan & Damien Lewis

Once a royal kingdom and then part of the British Empire, Burma long held sway in the Western imagination as a mythic place of great beauty. In recent times, Burma has been torn apart and isolated by one of...

Michelle Obama: A Biography

de Liza Mundy

She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait,...

The Quotable Giuliani: The Mayor of America in His Own Words

de Bill Adler

"If you've got a problem with New York City

being the capital of the world,

take it up with the Pope."

As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize...

John McCain

de Robert Timberg

From the Naval Academy to the POW camps of Vietnam to Capitol Hill and possibly to the White House -- one of America's most remarkable men

In 1998, at the dedication of the National Prisoner of War Museum in...

Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines

de Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some...

Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

de Marshall Frady

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The Obama Nation

de 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...

Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life

de Mary Cheney

Who is Mary Cheney?

In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity...

The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics

de Walter Mondale & David Hage

 Former vice president Walter Mondale makes a passionate, timely argument for American liberalism in this revealing and momentous political memoir.

For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has...

Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival

de George Obama & Damien Lewis

Homeland is the remarkable memoir of George Obama, President Obama’s Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal—to better the lives of his own people—in his elder brother’s...

White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters

de Robert Schlesinger

In White House Ghosts, veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger opens a fresh and revealing window on the modern presidency from FDR to George W. Bush. This is the first book to examine a crucial and often...

Chances of a Lifetime

de Warren Christopher

AN ENGAGING INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST FASCINATING DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL EPISODES IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY, FROM THE HIGHLY RESPECTED FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE WHO REMAINS A DEMOCRATIC...

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight

de Karl Rove

From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans....

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

de Bob Woodward

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden...

A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

de Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years...

Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States

de Herman Obermayer

"This book is a final act of posthumous loyalty. Without it, history will have an incomplete -- and I believe unbalanced -- picture of the remarkable man who was the sixteenth chief justice of the United States,...

Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story

de C. David Heymann

Few writers have immersed themselves in the world of the Kennedys as completely or successfully as C. David Heymann, whose Jackie Kennedy Onassis biography, A Woman Named Jackie, reached #1 on the New York Times...

Fire in My Soul

de Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joan Steinau Lester & Coretta Scott King

Here is the remarkable story of U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton -- impassioned civil rights activist, hard-driving legislator, and one of the most powerful women in American history.

They call her...

Churchill and America

de Martin Gilbert

In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center...