- Acheson
- James Chace
- Acheson is the first comprehensive biography of the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. Chace has given us an important and dramatic work of history chronicling the momentous decisions, events, and fascinating personalities of the most critical decades of the American Century.
- Paperback 1999
- Alternative America
- John Thomas
- George's Progress and Poverty, Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth each in its turn became an international best-seller, championing a course of national policy that owed allegiance neither to the large-scale capitalist model then emerging, nor to the bureaucratic socialism espoused on the left. Through vivid and searching portraits of these three redoubtable journalists, prizewinning historian Thomas traces for the first time the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.
- Hardcover
- Carlo Rosselli
- Stanislao G. Pugliese
- Carlo Rosselli (1899-1937) was one of the most charismatic and influential of European antifascist intellectuals. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, and abandoning a promising career as a professor of political economics, he devoted his considerable fortune and ultimately his life to the struggle against fascism. In this work, the first biography of Rosselli in English, Stanislao Pugliese skillfully interweaves the strands of heresy, exile, and tragedy in Rosselli's life.
- Hardcover 1999
- Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom
- Edmund Spevack
- This unique account of the life of Charles Follen--German nationalist and revolutionary, Harvard professor, Unitarian minister, and abolitionist--opens a window on several worlds during the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Hardcover 1997
- Chester Bowles
- Howard B. Schaffer
- Hardcover
- Daniel DeLeon
- L. Glen Seretan
- Hardcover 1979
- Defender of the Faith
- Lawrence Levine
- Paperback
- Democracy's Prisoner
- Ernest Freeberg
- In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.
- Hardcover 2008
- Entering China's Service
- Edited and with Narratives by Katherine Bruner
- Edited and with Narratives by John King Fairbank
- Edited and with Narratives by Richard J. Smith
- Robert Hart was one of those empire builders of the Victorian age who had a long and nearly uninterrupted experience in China, from 1854, when as a young Irishman from Belfast he landed in Ningpo, until 1908, when he finally retired to England. Entering China's Service presents a complete and annotated transcript of the surviving journals through 1863, alternating with chapters devoted to Hart's North Ireland background, the China he encountered, the Ch'ing officials who trusted him, and the unfolding of his career.
- Hardcover 1987
- Fanon's Dialectic of Experience
- Ato Sekyi-Otu
- A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects, Frantz Fanon was a controversial figure. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu enables readers to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- The First Professional Revolutionist
- Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
- This is a relatively brief, interpretive treatment of the man whom Bakunin called "the greatest conspirator of the century" but whom most English-speaking scholars know, if at all, as an obscure, misspelled name. In the introduction, a distinction is drawn between the "amateur" revolutionist and the frequently unemployed professional who attempted to create a situation that would make possible the practice of his craft and who had a vested interest in "revolution" in general but did not necessarily play a part in any particular revolution.
- Hardcover 1959
- Freedom on Fire
- John Shattuck
- As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Shattuck criticizes the Bush Administration's approach, which he says undermines human rights at home and around the world and argues that human rights wars are breeding grounds for terrorism.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister
- Richard J. Smethurst
- From his birth into the lowest stratum of the samurai class to his assassination at the hands of right-wing militarists, Takahashi Korekiyo (1854-1936) lived through tumultuous times that shaped the course of modern Japan. This engaging biography underscores the profound influence of the charismatic seven-time finance minister on the political and economic development of Japan by casting new light on his unusual background, unique talents, and singular experiences.
- Hardcover 2007
- Harry Hopkins
- George McJimsey
- Hardcover 1987
- Henry Kissinger and the American Century
- Jeremi Suri
- What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 2007
- The I. G. in Peking
- Robert Hart
- Hart's forty-five year administration of China's customs service was a unique achievement. In these letters Hart speaks to us directly from a time long past in China, but a time that may seem only yesterday to a Western reader. The result is a primary source for the history of modem China and the era of foreign privilege there.
- Hardcover 1976
- Ivan Aksakov, 1823-1886
- Stephen Lukashevich
- Aksakov began his fiery career as a critic of Slavophilism, which sought to divorce Russia from the West and all Western influence. Circumstances, however, turned Aksakov into the fanatical leader of the Slavophiles, making him a passionate nationalist and Pan-Slavist, and a fierce anti-Semite. Although he accepted the reforms of the 1860's, he feared that their results would lead to the further Westernization of Russia; and, toward the end of his life, disillusioned and despairing, he lent a generous hand to reaction.
- Hardcover 1965
- James Duncan Campbell
- Robert Ronald Campbell
- Paperback 1970
- Japanese Marxist
- Gail Lee Bernstein
- The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his own unique terms, and, finally, the author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature, Kawakami Hajime is an important figure in the history of modern Japan. Bernstein provides a portrait of Kawakami's complex personality as well as a narrative of the context and content of Japanese left-wing politics in the 1920s.
- Paperback 1990
- John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience
- Frank Otto Gatell
- The New England of his day regarded Palfrey's life as blameless and exemplary. Yet he himself once called it "his personal tragicomedy." In his stormy political career, Palfrey not only was Massachusetts Secretary of State, member of Congress, and Postmaster of Boston, but also played a key role in the formation of the Free Soil Party. Gatell has used papers of Palfrey's contemporaries and of the Palfrey family manuscripts, among them an unpublished autobiography, itself a search for meaning in a long and perplexing life.
- Hardcover 1963
- John Leighton Stuart and Twentieth-Century Chinese-American Relations
- Shaw Yu-ming
- Hardcover 1992
- Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864
- Robert A. McCaughey
- Hardcover 1974
- The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Abridged Edition
- Richard Dunn, Editor
- Laetitia Yaendle, Editor
- The abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, includes a lively introduction and complete annotation.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- The Key of Liberty
- Michael Merrill, Editor
- Sean Wilentz, Editor
- The Key of Liberty offers, better than any book yet published, a grassroots view of the rise of democratic opposition in the new nation. It sheds considerable light on the popular culture--literary, religious, and profane--of the epoch.
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1993
- Lenin
- Robert Service
- Lenin: His politics still reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence. And yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us Lenin as we have never seen him, in his full complexity as revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Lenin Lives!
- Nina Tumarkin
- Was the deification of Lenin a show of spontaneous affection--or a planned political operation designed to solidify the revolution with the masses? This book provides a startling answer. Exploring the cult's mystical, historical, and political aspects, Tumarkin demonstrates the galvanizing power of ritual in the establishment of the post-revolutionary regime. In a new Preface and Postscript, she brings the story up to date, considering the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's new democracy.
- Paperback 1997
- Letters to Kennedy
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- James Goodman, Volume Editor
- A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth Galbraith. Ranging from a pithy commentary on Kennedy's speech accepting the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to reflections on critical matters of state Letters to Kennedy presents a rare, intimate picture of the lives and minds of a political intellectual and an intellectual politician during a particularly rich moment in American history.
- Hardcover 1998
- Lord Liverpool
- Norman Gash
- Gash places Liverpool within the kaleidoscopic parliamentary politics of the time and shows how he governed with the collective strength and unity of the cabinet. This is not only an account of one of the most professional prime ministers of Great Britain, but also the story of the personal relations that shaped Lord Liverpool and the private life that gave him immense satisfaction. Based on correspondence and Lord Liverpool's private papers, Gash's work recasts the history of a turbulent age and its most prominent political figure.
- Hardcover 1985
- Miles to Go
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan offers a wide-ranging meditation on the nation's social strategies for the last sixty years, as well as a vision for the years to come.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- Bernard Bailyn
- Hardcover / Paperback
- The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- Bernard Bailyn
- Hardcover / Paperback
- Richard Cobden
- Nicholas C. Edsall
- In this biography Edsall demonstrates how Cobden dominated middle-class radicalism from the turbulent 1840s to the quieter years before the emergence of the Gladstonian Liberal party in the 1860s. Cobden was significant as a spokesman for the middle class in an era of acute class conflict and as a critic of the aims of great-power diplomacy at a time when his own country was the greatest of powers.
- Hardcover 1987
- Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization
- Richard J. Smith
- John King Fairbank
- Katherine Bruner
- These journal entries continue the sequence begun in Entering China's Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy, and inspecting the treaty ports. They culminate in Hart's return visit to Europe with the Pinch'un Mission and his marriage in Northern Ireland.
- Hardcover 1991
- Stalin
- Robert Service
- Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Struve
- Richard Pipes
- More than anyone else in his time, Struve was the master of history, journalism, economics, international relations, and practical politics. A scholar and activist, he helped found the Marxist movement in Russia, initiated Marxist Revisionism there, and launched Lenin's career, and he was the theoretician and a cofounder of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
- Hardcover 1970