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Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics
Par Deborah Grey. 2004
Starting as a teacher in rural Alberta, Deborah Grey eventually became the first elected MP of the Reform party, with…
a no-nonsense style, a willingness to praise or criticize her parliamentary colleagues as she saw fit, and a taste for one-liners. In looking back, she discusses her family and faith, while remaining unapologetic in her criticisms of Stockwell Day as Alliance leader and defending the party against accusations of racism. 2004.Nation maker: Sir John A. Macdonald : his life, our times, volume two : 1867-1891
Par Richard Gwyn. 2011
From Confederation Day in 1867, John A. Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada…
into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States. Macdonald faced constant crises, from Louis Riel's two rebellions through to the Pacific Scandal that almost undid his government. Gwyn paints a portrait of Canada and its leaders through these formative years and also shows us Macdonald the man, as he wrestles with whether Riel should hang, marries for the second time, deals with the birth of a disabled child, and the assassination of his close friend Darcy McGee. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to “John A: the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald” (DC31710). Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. c2011.Nancy: the life of Lady Astor
Par Christopher Sykes. 1972
My journey
Par Olivia Chow. 2014
My life as a spy: A Wry And Poignant Memoir Of Coming Of Age In The Cold War
Par Leslie Woodhead. 2005
In 1956, Woodhead received a summons to National Service; it was the beginning of his "life as a spy". This…
is a funny, sad and highly atmospheric memoir of what it was like to be hurled into maturity in the 50s, amidst the peculiar circumstances of the Cold War, and how our lives can be formed by events and experiences we barely comprehend. 2005.My life with Pablo Neruda
Par Matilde Urrutia, Alexandria Giardino. 1997
A biography of the lover, muse, wife, and then widow of the Nobel-laureate Chilean poet. She describes their life together,…
and then her persecution by the Pinochet government after Neruda's sudden death. She reveals the birth of "The Captain's verses", one of Neruda's most famous volumes of poetry, and discusses their illicit marriage in Italy, as well as her life under dictatorship until she began using Neruda's own words to lash out against the regime. Some descriptions of violence. 1986. Uniform title: Mi vida junto a Pablo Neruda.My grandfather's house: scenes of childhood and youth
Par Charles Ritchie. 1987
The author affectionately looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth. The reader is introduced…
to Ritchie's uncle, his dashing indomitable mother, mad cousin, and Irish nursery governess. 1987.My discovery of America
Par Farley Mowat. 1985
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the…
McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban. 1985.My life with Jacqueline Kennedy
Par Frances Spatz Leighton, Mary Barelli Gallagher. 1970
My years as Prime Minister (Ron Graham Bks.)
Par Jean Chrétien. 2007
By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years. Through the decade 1993 to…
2003 he won three majority elections as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Finding the country dangerously in debt and bitterly divided, he describes how his government wiped out the deficit in just four years, helped to defeat the separatists in the cliffhanger Quebec referendum, passed the Clarity Act, and set out to fulfill the economic and social promises his party made in its famous Red Books. 2007.My father's country: the story of a German family
Par Shaun Whiteside, Wibke Bruhns. 2009
On August 26, 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his participation in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.…
Decades later, his daughter Wibke was watching a TV documentary about those events when images of her father suddenly appeared on screen. Wibke began to trace her father's, and more widely, her well-to-do merchant family's, life in Germany, finally coming to know the mysterious man she barely remembers. Explicit descriptions of violence. 2009. Uniform title: Meines Vaters Land.My turn: the memoirs of Nancy Reagan
Par Nancy Reagan, William Novak. 1989
Feeling that she needs to set the record straight for historical purposes, Nancy Reagan tells her side of the story…
regarding the eight years she spent in the White House. Among the topics she discusses are her adjustment to being a first lady, and her use of astrology. Bestseller. 1989.Mussolini: A Biography
Par Denis Mack Smith. 1981
An account of the fascist dictator of Italy, showing how he rose from humble origins to absolute power by capitalising…
on the situations in which he found himself. Something of the man behind the public image is explored and also his journey from wide popular appeal to becoming possibly the most hated man in his own country. 1981.My life
Par Golda Meir. 1975
Some of the men and women whom the author has known, some of the places she has seen, and some…
of the incredible events in which she, as Prime Minister of Israel, has participated. 1975.My life
Par Bill Clinton. 2004
President Bill Clinton's "My life" is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to…
devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals. Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions. 2004. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Mulroney: the politics of ambition
Par John Sawatsky. 1991
Mulroney, the making of the prime minister: The Making Of The Prime Minister
Par L. Ian MacDonald. 1984
Mitterrand, l'insaisissable
Par Jean Daniel. 2016
Etalés sur plus de trente ans, les textes ici rassemblés dressent le portrait d'un homme politique riche en contrastes. Histoire…
d'un long compagnonnage entre J. Daniel et F. Mitterrand, d'abord intellectuel et politique, mais aussi littéraire et philosophique. 2016."Most blessed of the patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
Par Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S Onuf. 2016
Tracing Jefferson’s development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the “empire”…
of Jefferson’s imagination—his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences and life experiences that led him into public life as a modern avatar of the enlightenment, who often likened himself to an ancient figure—“the most blessed of the patriarchs." Jefferson was a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. The authors challenge much of what we have come to accept about Jefferson, and reintroduce us to a man more gifted than most, but complicated in just the ways we all are. 2016.More than a rose: prime ministers, wives, and other women
Par Heather Robertson. 1991
Heather Robertson tells the stories of the wives of Canada's prime ministers, revealing not only lives of adventure, power, and…
love, but in some cases, lives of loneliness, public condemnation, and drug addiction. Robertson offers a portrait of the trappings, and the traps, of politcal power, past and present. c1991.