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1) Golda
Author
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This biography of Israel's first female prime minister is "a fascinating examination of Golda Meir's public and private selves" ( Library Journal ). Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western-aligned world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Martin Luther King Jr. in the guise of a cookie-serving grandmother, her uncompromising devotion to shaping and defending a Jewish homeland against...
2) Golda Meir
Author
Series
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Presents the biography of Golda Meir against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the ... story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made political history and changed our assumptions of what a global leader can be"-- Provided by publisher....
Author
Series
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"After its proxies are devastated and its offensive capability pummeled in the latest war in the middle east, a rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot to strike back at their hated enemies once and for all. They envision a series of operational dominos culminating in a devastating attack, and the first step is the assassination of the Israeli prime minister. And there's only one assassin with the skills to pull it off: Abdul...
6) Pol Pot
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Publication Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
A biography of the prime minister of Cambodia.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton...
Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"-- Provided by publisher.
9) Unleashed
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"In Unleashed, Johnson takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and why he took them. The challenges and crises, how they were resolved--or not--and how he nearly died from Covid; riots; crime; the London Olympics, and so much more. Johnson writes about his role in Brexit and the constitutional sea-change in British politics in 2019 with his landslide election victory. Underlying everything in the book is Johnson's belief...
10) Bibi: my story
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the United States--before returning to their cherished homeland....
Author
Series
Divine Cities volume 3
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do--and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve. Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states--East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the East, rise to the top of the Christian Democratic Union to become the first woman to hold the office of chancellor? And how did she then become one of the most powerful heads of government...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
1993
Language
English
Description
This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.
16) Lady Clementine
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A historical tale inspired by the life of Clementine Churchill that traces her unflinching role in protecting the life and wartime agendas of her husband, Winston Churchill.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Britain's former Prime Minister, covering her humble beginnings as the daughter of a grocer, education at Oxford, rise in the Coservative party, election as Prime Minister in 1979, and major events in her term up to the Falklands Warof 1982.
Author
Publisher
World Book
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A biography of Golda Meir, the Ukrainian-born fourth and only female prime minister of Israel, with profiles of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, and Yitzhak Rabin, the first prime minister born in what is now Israel. As well as feeling pride as leaders of the people of Israel, all three experienced a special connection to the land itself, having spent time early in their careers in communal farm settlements known as kibbutzim.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Drawing from previously unpublished material and numerous interviews, a former Member of Parliament chronicles the life of the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the twentieth century and the only woman to ever hold the office.