politicians

Highlights the lives of ten women prominent in U.S. politics, including Barbara Jordan, Elizabeth Dole, Janet Reno, Geraldine Ferraro, and Jeane Kirkpatrick.

A biography of the political activist who encouraged rebellion against Great Britain.

Naimah's mother might lose her seat in the city council election because her opponent is using some lowest tricks in the book--just to make her look bad. That is when Naimah and her four best friends decide to do something about it.

Hermann Goring was Adolph Hitler's right-hand man. As he rose to power though, he became increasingly disillusioned, withdrawing from the political scene to enjoy the pleasures of his life as a wealthy man. He was eventually shunned by Hitler and by the time he was convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, he was alone and without allies. Before he could be hanged, he committed suicide in prison.

A San Francisco member of the Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America.

"Drawing on memoirs, archives, and interviews, Davis and Trani trace American prejudice toward Russia and China by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century, showing where American images originated and how they evolved"--Provided by publisher.

For ten years Gordon Brown was British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man. In 2007 Blair resigned and Brown became Prime Minister.

Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. During a trip he comes upon an accident when suddenly two people are shot in an approaching car. One is the Chinese minister of tourism and the other a blond westerner. The blond dies in his arms but when Shan tries to report the death he is told she did not die. As he looks for the killer he discovers that the fate of his son is bound up in his search.

Rosario Marin is the first in her family to graduate from college and has become the treasurer of the United States and the first Latina in California to run for the U.S. senate.

Examines the role the California Gold Rush played in the events leading up to the Civil War including the debate between the Northern and Southern states over California.