Book Description
Biographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders.
Author : Roger East
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1317639405
Biographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders.
Author : Gene N. Landrum
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Presents a psychobiographical analysis of 14 individuals who rose to the top of their professions and changed the world, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Helena Rubenstein, Edith Piaf, Nikola Tesla, and Amelia Earhart. Their stories reveal that factors such as emulation of great people, manic behavior, rebellion, and mythological hero mentors are important for success. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Peter Schweizer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0062897926
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of six-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe. Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons’ international money flow, exposed global corruption, and sparked an FBI investigation. Secret Empires exposed bipartisan corruption and launched congressional investigations. And Throw Them All Out and Extortion prompted passage of the STOCK Act. Indeed, Schweizer’s “follow the money” bombshell revelations have been featured on the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and regularly appear on national news programs, including 60 Minutes. Now Schweizer and his team of seasoned investigators turn their focus to the nation’s top progressives—politicians who strive to acquire more government power to achieve their political ends. Can they be trusted with more power? In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances, and secrets deals of some of America’s top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn’t disappoint, with never-before-reported revelations that uncover corruption and abuse of power—all backed up by a mountain of corporate documents and legal filings from around the globe. Learn about how they are making sweetheart deals, generating side income, bending the law to their own benefits, using legislation to advance their own interests, and much more. Profiles in Corruption contains tomorrow’s headlines.
Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317882350
Gandhi's is an extraordinary and compelling story. Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times. And yet Gandhi never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His 'power' therefore makes a particularly fascinating subject for investigation. David Arnold explains how and why the shy student and affluent lawyer became one of the most powerful anti-colonial figures Western empires in Asia ever faced and why he aroused such intense affection, loyalty (and at times much bitter hatred) among Indians and Westerners alike. Attaching as much influence to the idea and image of Gandhi as to the man himself, Arnold sees Gandhi not just as a Hindu saint but as a colonial subject, whose attitudes and experiences expressed much that was common to countless others in India and elsewhere who sought to grapple with the overwhelming power and cultural authority of the West. A vivid and highly readable introducation to Gandhi's life and times, Arnold's book opens up fascinating insights into one of the twentieth century's most remarkable men.
Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Haigh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317873610
The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and growth in British history - the "Golden Age". This celebrated and influential study reconsiders how Elizabeth achieved this, and the ways in which she exercised her power. It analyses the nature of her power through an examination of her relations with Parliament, the Council of Ministers, the Church, the nobility, military and the English people themselves.
Author :
Publisher : Blake Styrek Publishing
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
An Essay concerning Joseph Stalin.
Author : Roger East
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1317639391
This new work of biographical reference presents succinct narrative biographies of every serving head of state and head of government. Its content covers approximately 200 countries and territories and provides over 300 biographical profiles. Each country section contains: * A brief explanation of its type of government and the roles of the head of state, the head of government and the legislature * Lists of the most recent heads of state and head of government, with dates of office * Biographical profiles of current head of state and government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders * A photographic section of a selection of the world's key political leaders * A full index by name, date of taking office, and source of authority.
Author : Richard Reeves
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439127549
President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home. "A narrative that leaves us not only with a new understanding of Kennedy as President, but also with a new understanding of what it means to be President" (The New York Times).
Author : J. Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 131789345X
This book is about a couple, not a single, dominant ruler. Thus it raises issues of gender, and the dynamics of a marriage over thirty-five years, as well as the practice of monarchical power. The reader sees Ferdinand and Isabella struggle to establish their regime, and then work out an elaborate reform programme in Church and State. It sees them fight a ‘total war’, by fifteenth-century standards, against Muslim Granada, leading to that kingdom’s conquest, and an equally ‘total’ war, through the Inquisition and the Church in general, to convert Spanish Jews and Muslims to Christianity, and to reform and purify the religious and social lives of the established Christians themselves. For readers interested in Early European History.