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Escape: The Personal Narrative of a Political Prisoner Who Was Rescued from Lipari, the Fascist Devil's Island

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Report copyright infringementby Francesco Fausto Nitti (Author)Escape: The Personal Narrative Of A Political Prisoner Who Was Rescued From Lipari, The Fascist Devil��s Island is a memoir written by Francesco Fausto Nitti, an Italian political prisoner who managed to escape from the notorious Lipari prison during the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. The book provides a vivid and harrowing account of Nitti's experiences as a prisoner, including the brutal treatment he and his fellow inm...

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Report copyright infringementby John Salisbury (Author)"In my job I've interviewed countless thousands of authors about a multitude of books - but have rarely come across someone as delightful and inspirational as John Salisbury. I share his concern for the Palestinians and admire his heroic efforts on their part. Four cheers."Phillip Adams AO, FAHA, FRSAAustralian humanist, social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer Number of Pages: 208 Dimensio...

Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Author)Song for My Father is a daughter's memoir of her father, Charles M. Stokes, a prominent African-American member of the National Republican Party. Known as "Stokey," he was born just forty years after the abolition of slavery. But by the time he became a pioneer in the fields of law, legislation, and politics -- during the turbulent and transformative 1960s and 70s -- contemporary associations of the GOP with the "party of Lincoln...

The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Chipman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.T...

Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Kwoba (Author)The significance of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)--as a journalist, activist, and educator--lies in his innovation of radical solutions to radical injustices. He witnessed staggering luxury for the few alongside crushing poverty for the many. White mob violence continually haunted Black communities, while imperial conquest and world wars wrought wanton destruction upon entire nations of people. These conditions sparked a global political...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Jeff Lyons (Author)Emily Lyons survived a bomb detonated by Eric Robert Rudolph in Birmingham, Alabama on Jan 29th, 1998. Rudolph was on the FBI's Top Ten for over five years with a reward of one million dollars. The manhunt cost $30 million. Emily sustained extensive injuries, including the loss of her eye. This book is about the attack, but there is so much more - love and hate, life and death, joy and sorrow. Most of all, it is about survival. Tragic e...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Darlington (Author)A trusted postmaster. A faulty computer system. A life ruined by lies.Signed, Sealed, Destroyed is the shocking true story of Scott Darlington - one of the victims of the UK's biggest miscarriage of justice.A gripping memoir of injustice, survival, and truth. When trusted postmaster Scott Darlington was falsely accused of theft by the Post Office's faulty Horizon IT system, he lost everything-his job, reputation, and self worth.This pow...

Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive

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Report copyright infringementby Clare Hemmings (Author)In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces them, finding them to be helpful in formulating a new queer feminist praxis. Mining three overlapping archives--Goldman's own writings, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jw Williams (Author) Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 05, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Gayle Young (Author)A memoir with a dash of history This is an insightful and witty account of the adventures of a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and an ancient warrior queen - 17 centuries apart.Young was a novice broadcast journalist when she was catapulted into the position of CNN Cairo bureau chief in the early 1990s; Zenobia was the same age when she unexpectedly seized Egypt along with a third of the Roman Empire in the 270s AD.One woman made hi...

Babe and the Big Boys: One Woman's Story of Breaking Barriers, Reforming Washington State Elections, and Living Life Her Way

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Report copyright infringementby Cathy Pearsall-Stipek (Author)Birth of a Fighter In Babe and the Big Boys, Cathleen "Cathy" Pearsall-Stipek charts her remarkable journey from a young housewife advocating for her deaf son to becoming one of Washington State's most influential champions of electoral reform. Born into a close-knit Tacoma family in 1932, Pearsall-Stipek's life changed dramatically in 1964 when her four-year-old son Joe was diagnosed as deaf. Her fight to ensure Joe received prope...

One Term: A Current Day Political Assassination

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Aguinaga (Author)In this fourth installment of Nathan Aguinaga's memoirs, he addresses the growing political divide in the United States of America. Nearly twenty years ago, after spending the first half of his life as a Democrat in a family of Democrats, Nathan became a member of the Republican Party. A Middle America supporter of Donald Trump, he explains how his beliefs affected relationships with his family and some of his friends and shares his thou...

The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy - Hardcover

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by Federico Finchelstein (Author)Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of populist politician is typically a legally elected leader who,...

Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation - Hardcover

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by Ismar Volic (Author)How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What's the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical grab bag of the shortsighted, the cyni...

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by Rick Steves (Author)Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's never been a more important time to travel. Rick believes the risks of travel are widely exaggerated, and that fear is for pe...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Paperback

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by Mark Fisher (Author)It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin...

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Cox (Author)In this haunting memoir, Kim Cox takes us into the depths of a childhood marked by unspeakable betrayal and cruelty. Torn between a mother's love and a father's violence, she battles neglect, abuse, and abandonment, clinging to the only thing she has left: her resilience.Surviving unimaginable family secrets and heart-wrenching rejection, Kim's journey is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit, even when hope seems impossible. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Yaniv Feller (Author)Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was a rabbi, public intellectual, and the official leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. The Jewish Imperial Imagination shows the myriad ways in which the German imperial enterprise left its imprint on his religious and political thought, and on modern Judaism more generally. This book is the first to explore Baeck's religious thought as political, and situate it within the imperial context of the period which ...

Eugene McCarthy and the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism

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Report copyright infringementby Dominic Sandbrook (Author)Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968 election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Party to power, irrevocably shifting the country's polit...

Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Laryea (Author)A groundbreaking look at how Black visionaries--from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond--are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone. "Black Capitalists is a dive into the history of how money is made and our attitudes about wealth. A must read."--Vanessa Williams, singer, actress, author, producer, and former Miss America To many, the term "Black Capitalists" is oxymoronic. Black people were the ...

Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom

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Report copyright infringementby Rushan Abbas (Author), Adrian Zenz (Foreword by), Ken Weinstein (Foreword by)"Rushan's powerful memoir takes an unwavering stand against the CCP's brutality, not only exposing systematic oppression but empowering countless others to speak truth to power. Unbroken is an urgent call to action for policymakers, advocates, and all those committed to defending human dignity." - Rep. John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House Select Committee on ChinaWhat happens when a m...

The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?: The Political Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Benn (Author), Melissa Benn (Introduction by)TONY BENN: FIREBRAND? NATIONAL TREASURE? A SOCIALIST FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY This centenary anthology of Tony Benn's speeches, writings and interviews is a timely reminder of his political potency and the urgency of his agenda across a wide set of issues: the consequences of empire, the need to embrace industrial change, reform of the state machine and the management of politics. Called the 'most dangerous ...

Senator Kenneth McKellar: Feudin' Son of Tennessee

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Report copyright infringementby Ray Hill (Author)Kenneth McKellar may have been born in Reconstruction-era Alabama, but for most of his life, he was a Tennessean through and through. After graduating from the University of Alabama with bachelor's, master's, and law degrees, McKellar traveled to Memphis for what he expected to be a brief visit with his brothers. That visit was the genesis of a lifelong career and permanent home in West Tennessee. After successfully practicing law in Memphis, K...

Arlen Specter: Scandals, Conspiracies, and Crisis in Focus

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Report copyright infringementby Evan Laine (Author)From his early work as a lawyer on the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to his days as Philadelphia's district attorney to his thirty-year career as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter found himself consistently in the middle of major historical events. During his five terms as senator, Specter met with the likes of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Cu...

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Report copyright infringementby Jw Williams (Author) Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 05, 2025

Exceptionally Upsetting: How Americans are increasingly confusing knowledge with opinion & what can be done about it

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Burton (Author)How did America reach its present state of striking dysfunctionality, and what can be done about it? Howard Burton offers his unique perspective on the raging culture war in the United States, vividly describing how Americans are increasingly falling prey to a culture of opinionated ignorance, while suggesting that a solution is nonetheless possible: simply harnessing the abundant genuine expertise that is quietly contained within its shor...

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Hoffman (Author)You've heard, "Experience is the best teacher" - but the saying doesn't end there. We often forget the important conclusion: "...especially when it's someone else's experience." If you're only learning from your own experience, you're wasting years of time doing all the wrong things. When we learn from the experiences of others, we can save those years and make the right decisions when they count. Who has the experience you should learn from?...

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Report copyright infringementby Piers Morgan (Author)As host of the CNN show Piers Morgan Live, Piers Morgan has come a long way from his days as a British tabloid editor and judge on America's Got Talent. Love him or hate him, it's undeniable that Morgan is one of the most talked-about, controversial figures in the media today. From gun control and gay marriage to religion and pop icons, he tackles the hot-button topics head on. In The Hot Seat (previously published as Shooting Straight), he...

Paikin and the Premiers: Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Ontario Leaders

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Paikin (Author)A unique perspective on Ontario's most powerful political leaders. Ontario's fortunes and fates increasingly rest in the hands of the province's premier. Critics say the role of premier concentrates too much power in one person, but at least that points to the one person Ontarians, and others beyond the province's borders, ought to know all about. Few people know the modern-era premiers of Canada's most populous province the way Steve Paiki...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Tanenhaus (Author)"A magnificent achievement--a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America's premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century."--Max Boot, author of Reagan: His Life and Legend "Exposes the roots of the modern conservative movement . . . authoritative . . . As Buckley's only authorized biographer, Tanenhaus draws from troves of his private papers and extensive interviews with the man himself."--The New York Times ...

Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation

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Report copyright infringementby Irina Borogan (Author), Andrei Soldatov (Author)Two of Russia's most prominent investigative journalists tell the "gripping" (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s was replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayal Our Dear Friends in Moscow tells the story of a group of young Russians, part of an idealistic generation who came of age in Moscow at the end of the twentieth century, just as the communist era imp...

Facing Hard Truths: How Americans Can Get Real, Pull Together, and Turn Our Country Around

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen J. Cloobeck (Author)"It's a great book and he should be proud of it." --President Bill Clinton Successful businessman, activist, and philanthropist, and 2026 candidate for governor of California Stephen J. Cloobeck applies an unflinching problem-solver's eye to America's most pervasive challenges. Cloobeck built his reputation transforming dysfunctional companies at the brink of ruin into performance powerhouses. In Facing Hard Truths, he focuses this ...