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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In this witty, candid and utterly fascinating memoir, Baroness Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, she was born in 1922 into a world of privilege and luxury. But her mother lost most of her inheritance in the Wall Street Crash and the family retrenched from Mayfair to Sandwich, in Kent, where her mother became a succesful society interior decorator.
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In 2013, when Washington D.C. law enforcement learned that Trey Radel, then a Republican congressman from Florida, had bought cocaine, he quickly became the target of a police sting. In October of that year, Radel was arrested for attempting to buy cocaine from an undercover cop, and subsequently became the subject of intense media coverage and scrutiny. When Radel resigned in 2014, he left with insider knowledge that remains unknown to most American...
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Publisher
Two Roads
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In the aftermath of Jo Cox's tragic death in 2016, her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo's life and what she stood for and not the manner of her death. In this moving and impassioned portrait of Jo - as daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and activist - we see how much she gave and how much more she had to give, and her legacy of values and beliefs which will live on.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020
Description
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For over two decades she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one; the travel, the security, the challenges to family life and the unpredictable events. A professional partner, as well as a life partner, and one with strong political opinions herself, she detonates the image of the dutiful stereotype....
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in America's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this autobiography, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candour about his extraordinary life.
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Publisher
Lion
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Lord Shaftesbury campaigned tirelessly to limit factory hours, to stop the use of boys as chimney sweeps and children in coalmines, and to develop a universial education. This book details his upbringing, education and work as a politician. It considers how he combined political and legislative action with voluntary Christian societies.
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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2018
Description
As one of the country's leading political journalists, Isabel Hardman has spent many years in that bizarre rabbit-warren we call the Houses of Parliament. She's conducted thousands of interviews with MPs ranging from fresh-faced recruits to Prime Ministers. With some notable exceptions, she has found them to be decent, hard-working people, doing a hugely difficult and demanding job. And yet, politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional...
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Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2007
Description
At the heart of this book is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outside America's borders.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle believes that we can all lean on a set of tools to help us better...
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Publisher
Gallery Books UK
Pub. Date
2021
Description
From the sublime to the ridiculous, the inner workings of Westminster are often a mystery to an outsider. Here, MP Jess Phillips lifts the lid on the systems and rules that govern us all, and in her own inimitable style shows us what's 'really' going on in British politics. Drawing on her tenure as an MP, she will explain the process of running for government; changing a law; serving her constituents; wrangling with her fellow MPs and so much more....