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Sir Wilfrid Laurier: portrait intime
Par Laurier L LaPierre. 1997
La vie privée et publique de Laurier, premier Canadien-français à diriger les destinées du Canada à titre de Premier ministre.…
1997. Titre uniforme: Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the romance of Canada.Taschereau (Bibliothèque d'histoire)
Par Antonin Dupont. 1997
The Berlin-Baghdad express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power
Par Sean McMeekin. 2010
It was not the British or the French but rather a few Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world…
into World War I. Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, while the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to fight Turkey's hereditary enemy, Russia. McMeekin weaves events such as Turkey's entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution with German efforts to complete the Berlin-Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. Bestseller. c2010.The battlefield of Ontario politics: an autobiography
Par Gregory Sorbara. 2014
Greg Sorbara has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of any Ontario politician, and in two different Liberal administrations.…
He was appointed minister of finance by Premier Dalton McGuinty in 2003, and served as campaign chair for the Liberals’ three consecutive election victories. Here he brings you into the back rooms of the Ontario Liberal Party as some of the most significant changes in Ontario’s political history are made. He also gives readers an insider’s view of his party’s election strategies, and discusses the controversy surrounding the now infamous gas plant cancellations. 2014.The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Par Benjamin Franklin. 1986
Industry, honesty, and an eye for the ladies are ever apparent in this candid self-portrait, from his humble birth in…
1706 to the beginnings of his greatness in 1757. 1986. Uniform title: AutobiographyThe antagonist: Lucien Bouchard and the politics of delusion
Par Lawrence Martin. 1997
Martin presents a biography of Lucien Bouchard, drawing on interviews with friends, adversaries, and family members, as well as the…
controversial psychiatric report prepared by Dr. Vivian Rakoff. Martin also discusses Bouchard's shifting political loyalties, and charts 50 occasions on which Bouchard has contradicted himself. 1997.The arrogance of power: the secret world of Richard Nixon
Par Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan. 2000
Scathing exposé of the thirty-seventh American president based on interviews with his psychiatrist and contemporaries. Suggests that Nixon's flawed character,…
love of intrigue, and money led to criminal behaviour which began in California and continued through Watergate. Strong language. 2000.Thanks, Obama: my hopey, changey White House years : a speechwriter's memoir
Par David Litt. 2017
With a humorist's eye for detail and a convert's zeal, Litt takes us inside his eight years on the front…
lines of Obamaworld. In his political coming-of-age story, he goes from starry-eyed college student to nervous junior speechwriter to White House senior staff. In between lighthearted observations, he addresses one of today's most important issues: the legacy and future of the Obama movement in the age of Trump. 2017.Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
Par Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2009
In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how…
he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. Bestseller. 2009.Testament of youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925
Par Vera Brittain. 1933
First published in 1933, and rediscovered forty-five years later, this is a record of the author's experiences during the World…
War I years. Brittain tells not only of her own prematurely shattered youth, but that of an entire generation of young men and women who devoted themselves to the war effort. c1933.Sissi, ou, La fatalité (Présence de l'histoire)
Par Jean Des Cars. 1997
Simón Bolívar: le rêve américain (Biographie Payot)
Par Pierre Vayssière. 2008
Coup de canon dans le ciel de la liberté, l'homme qui donna son nom à tout un pays, la Bolivie,…
reste associé pour toujours aux combats pour l'indépendance d'une Amérique latine soumise durant trois siècles au joug espagnol. Une vie romanesque à souhait et une personnalité exaltée et charismatique, qui inspirèrent bien des écrivains dont Gabriel García Márquez, ont achevé d'ériger Símon Bolívar (1783-1830) en mythe. Issu d'une riche et puissante famille de Caracas, le jeune créole appartient à cette élite blanche nourrie de la pensée des Lumières qui formera le creuset des idées nouvelles d'émancipation venues d'Europe et des États-Unis. Dans un Empire espagnol en crise bientôt menacé par Napoléon, il s'engage résolument du côté des patriotes et se lance, à la tête des guérillas unifiées, dans une interminable guerre civile pour libérer le Venezuela, la Colombie et l'Équateur. Non content d'y proclamer la République de Grande-Colombie, dont il devient le président malgré lui, el Libertador repartira à l'assaut du Pérou dans un incroyable périple à travers les Andes. Fragiles, ses fédérations d'États voleront bien vite en éclats et son utopique rêve panaméricain tournera court. 2008.Sur les traces de Jules César (Sur les traces)
Par Stéphanie Morillon. 2002
Partager les conquêtes de César, d'Europe en Orient, à travers les récits des historiens de l'Antiquité. Découvrir les civilisations romaine…
et gauloise. Apprendre les fondements de notre histoire. Années 3 à 6. 2002.Soljénitsyne (Écrivains de toujours ; 104)
Par Georges Nivat. 1980
L'écrivain Soljenitsyne, peut-être le plus célèbre des dissidents russes, s'est donné pour tâche de nous faire connaitre le vrai régime…
Sovietique; du Kremlin jusqu'aux camps de travail. Ce livre est un essai tant sur l'homme que sur l'oeuvre. 1980.Tales of two cities: a Persian memoir
Par Abbas Milani. 1996
A college professor in California reminisces about his childhood in a strictly religious Muslim home in Iran. At fifteen he…
was sent to the U.S. for a Western education. He returned to Tehran with a Ph.D. in political science, was imprisoned for ideological reasons, and eventually chose exile. His reflections offer insights into two strongly contrasting cultures. c1996.T. rex and the crater of doom
Par Walter Alvarez. 1997
A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…
sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.Tales mummies tell
Par Patricia Lauber. 1985
Discusses the human mummies of Egypt and how they were preserved, the discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia and…
the mummies of Peru. For junior and senior high readers. 1985.Tank men: the human story of tanks at war
Par Robert J Kershaw. 2009
Ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle…
through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines. This text draws on newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars. 2009.Strength of conviction
Par Tom Mulcair. 2015
The inside story of Thomas Mulcair's rise from modest beginnings to the threshold of power. Discover the man behind the…
headlines, who he is, how he thinks, and the struggles he faced - from fighting sexual misconduct, to protecting our environment, to his work alongside Jack Layton leading the NDP to a historic breakthrough in Quebec. Bestseller. 2015.Jean Lumb, a recipient of the Order of Canada, shares the story of her immigration to Canada, her contribution to…
the changing of Canada's immigration laws, and her efforts in saving Chinatown communities across Canada. Grades 5-8. 1997.