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Brian Cowen
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Jason O'Toole |
First biography of Brian Cowen, Ireland's new leader and Taoiseach.Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian CowenDespite a high profile at the centre of Irish political life for more than twenty years, re… |
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Uncompromised
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Nada Prouty |
"Nada Prouty served her country loyally, with distinction, and, as universally acknowledged by her colleagues, with great personal courage as a CIA covert officer. This tale of rampant trampling of … |
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The whole damn deal
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Kathryn J. McGarr |
"Robert S. Strauss was for many decades the quintessential Democratic power broker. Born to a poor Jewish family in West Texas, he founded the law firm that became Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, … |
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Frank
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Barney Frank,Barney Frank |
Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first and to keep the sec… |
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Destiny and power
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Jon Meacham |
He was the last of a kind, and his rise, his fall, and his rebirth in the twilight of his life offers a window on a great deal of American history.' Meacham creates an intimate and detailed life stor… |
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Playing to the edge
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Michael V. Hayden |
"An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both the CIA and the NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and momentous change For Gen… |
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Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography
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Charles Moore |
In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volum… |
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Our Revolution
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Bernie Sanders |
"When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he wa… |
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From exile to Washington
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W. Michael Blumenthal |
"Born in Weimar Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal grew up during the ascent of the Third Reich. He and his family fled from the Nazis to the other side of the world--first to Shanghai, then to America. … |
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Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse
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Nichols, John |
Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive, we the people need … |
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Off the sidelines
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Kirsten Gillibrand |
"Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: 'Decisions are being made every day in … |
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Love & war
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James Carville |
"For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to thei… |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
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Jonathan Allen,Jonathan Allen And Amie Parnes,Jonatan Allen And Amie Parnes |
"The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle Hillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brough… |
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Oriana Fallaci
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Cristina De Stefano |
282 pages : 24 cm |
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Bobby Kennedy
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Matthews, Christopher |
396 pages : 25 cm |
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The year I was Peter the Great
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Marvin L. Kalb |
The year 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--a time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that… |
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Conversations with power
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Brian Michael Till |
"Fresh out of college and just beginning his work as a syndicated columnist and a researcher at the New America Foundation, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. H… |
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The elimination
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Rithy Panh |
"From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor's autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only eleven … |
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Heir to the Empire City
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Edward P. Kohn |
"Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president--an outdoorsy, rough-riding figure who was as versatile with a six-shooter as he was with a pen, and who derived hi… |
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Alter egos
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Mark Landler |
"The deeply reported story of two supremely ambitious figures, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton--archrivals who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historic des… |
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