Political

The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was . . . nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan. The post 9/11... More

Medals or stripes proclaiming your designation are of little consequence when you are cornered by a hardened criminal. Viewed from this perspective alone, life 'on the beat' for top-cop Aftab Ahmed Khan has been no safer than that of any ordinary policeman patrolling the mean streets. What made a ma... More

IT'S NOT JUST A GAME, IT'S YOUR FUTURE. HERE'S HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF IT!College. Career. Marriage. Kids, Retirement and beyond-your future success and happiness depends on how you play the game of life, the REAL game of life. There are exciting choices to be made and new paths to explore. How will... More

The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the world's great stories of the 20th century: the repercussions of that rise have, of course, already deeply marked the 21st century. And yet it is a story that has never been properly told. Their affairs shrouded in secrecy, living in one of the ... More

Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate... More

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom Brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive , compelling and uplifing,Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a sto... More

The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nat... More

Living History is Hillary Rodham Clinton's revealing memoir of her White House years-of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty year adventure in love and politics. Hillary Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. She charted her own course as the on... More

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and ... More

In this book Michael Lynch presents an engaging and thoroughaccount of Mao's life and politics, making use of a wealth of primary andsecondary sources. He locates Maoism in the broader context of twentieth-centuryChinese history, discussing the development of the Chinese Communist Party, thecreation... More

In March 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India, with the mandate to hand over "the jewel in the crown" of the British Empire within one year. Mountbatten worked with various leaders to devise a plan for partitioning the empire into two independent sovereign states. During the ... More

A revelatory account of Tony Blair's tumultuous leadership, "The Blair Years "gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair Campbell--Blair's spokesman from 1994 to 2003, his press secretary, strategist, and closest confidant. It is a compelling chronicle of contemporary B... More

Audacious, provocative, and bombastic, few world politicians are as colorful as Hugo Chavez, now making international news for his plans to nationalize U.S. owned businesses and his bold opposition to Washington's economic and trade policies. As Venezuela gains importance as the fifth largest oil ex... More

Combining unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow, carefully guarded Cuban government documents, and extensive interviews with both Che's comrades and the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down, this acclaimed biography stands as "an enduring achievemen... More

It is almost unprecedented for a head of state to publish a memoir while still in office. But Pervez Musharraf is no ordinary head of state. As President of Pakistan since 1999, his is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and he continues to play a crucial role in the global war on terror. A... More

As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed "The "Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the ... More

Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced her into exile in the late 1990s. From her upbringing in one of Pakistan's richest families to her subsequ... More

/Benjamin Franklin Publisher, inventor, educator, and statesman, Benjamin Franklin was a complex and appealing character. Here is a wide-ranging selection of his writings from Poor Richard's Almanac, scientific essays, and political commentaries, plus a generous doThis authoritative Bantam Classic e... More