"The Path to Power (Margaret Thatcher) The Path to Power is a memoir by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher covering her life from her birth in 1925 until she became Prime Minister in 1979. Most of the book covers her life up until her election victory in 1979 but she added on about 150 pages at the end giving her opinions on current affairs on the years since she resigned as Prime Minister in 1990. Although Thatcher avoided personal attacks on her successor John Major, she clearly believed that he had squandered her legacy and was"
"Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power is a 1995 biography of the U.S. president and military leader by historian William B. Pickett, a professor (now emeritus) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was published as part of Harlan Davidson's American Biographical History Series. Divided into six parts, the book chronicles Eisenhower's early life, wartime service, presidency and retirement. In addition to telling Eisenhower's life story, the book was a re-examination of his political legacy, part of a trend challenging previous historians' views of his presidency as weak. With access to"
"“The way to Power” begins the life, times and adventures of one man Richard Harris then aged 32 year through his life to 68 years. Harris a man with a common name but an uncommon nature. This book is purely fictional as to persons, institutions, times and places. It is about a man, not a person, who is ruthlessly ambitious, a Catholic believer (but not too religious) and a true follower of “Jong’s” synchronicity philosophy. “Power Seekers” takes the reader into a world of ruthless people, friends, envy, jealousy, ambition, treachery, hatred, love, disloyalty, lust and into the wealth and"
"Know Your Power Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters is a 2008 memoir by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, published by Doubleday on July 29, 2008. It is co-written with ""New York Times"" bestselling author and Peabody Award-winning writer Amy Hill Hearth. It is Pelosi's first published book. The book is a personal and political history describing her own youth as the daughter of U.S. Congressman Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., being a stay-at-home mom, becoming a Democratic organizer in California, running for Congress at 47 and eventually becoming the highest ranking woman in the history of the United States government."
"Power""), they have been recognised as a definitive account of the downfall of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Before his death in 1999, Clark had started work on the prequel to the 1983–1992 ""Diaries"" to cover his entry in politics, from seeking a Conservative Association to adopt him as their Parliamentary Candidate in 1972 until the 1983 general election. Published a year after his death, this volume was titled ""Diaries: Into Politics"" and covered 1972 to 1983. The final volume, covering Clark's decision not to seek re-election at the 1992 general election, his regret at leaving the House of Commons and"
"Path to War Path to War is a 2002 American biographical television film, produced by HBO and directed by John Frankenheimer. It was the final film (theatrical or made-for-TV) that was directed by Frankenheimer, who died seven weeks after the film debuted on HBO. It was also the last film produced by Edgar J. Scherick during his lifetime—he died seven months after its initial airing on HBO. The film deals directly with the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and his cabinet members. The starting events portrayed begin in 1965. The film"
"told her to start taking notes."" ""Publishers Weekly"" described the book as ""a gentle account from a tough politician."" Pelosi's promotional tour for the book in July 2008 included appearances on ""Today"", ""The View"" and ""The Colbert Report"". Know Your Power Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters is a 2008 memoir by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, published by Doubleday on July 29, 2008. It is co-written with ""New York Times"" bestselling author and Peabody Award-winning writer Amy Hill Hearth. It is Pelosi's first published book. The book is a personal and political history describing her own youth as"
"from Inspiration to Impact"" (edited with Graham Allison). Her first book, """", grew out of a paper she wrote while attending law school. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2003. From 1998 to 2002, Power served as the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she later served as the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy. In 2004, Power was named by ""Time"" magazine as one of the 100 most influential people"
"A Journey A Journey is a memoir by Tony Blair of his tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Published in the UK on 1 September 2010, it covers events from when he became leader of the Labour Party in 1994 and transformed it into ""New Labour"", holding power for a party record three successive terms, to his resignation and replacement as Prime Minister by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Blair donated his £4.6 million advance, and all subsequent royalties, to the British Armed Forces charity The Royal British Legion. It became the fastest-selling autobiography of all"
"the 1952 Republican Party presidential primaries and general election. Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power is a 1995 biography of the U.S. president and military leader by historian William B. Pickett, a professor (now emeritus) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was published as part of Harlan Davidson's American Biographical History Series. Divided into six parts, the book chronicles Eisenhower's early life, wartime service, presidency and retirement. In addition to telling Eisenhower's life story, the book was a re-examination of his political legacy, part of a trend challenging previous historians'"
"United States presidential election, 2016, when politically embattled parent Khizr Khan said he mailed a copy of it to his U.S. Army son Humayun Khan shortly before he was killed during the Iraq War. Why Courage Matters Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life is a 2004 book by United States Senator John McCain with his frequent collaborator and aide Mark Salter. Published by Random House, it is mostly mini-biographies and mini-commentaries on others, but contains a small autobiographical element. The book followed McCain's two memoirs, ""Faith of My Fathers"" (1999) and ""Worth the Fighting For"" (2002). McCain"
"Long Walk to Freedom Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co. The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison. Under the apartheid government, Mandela was regarded as a terrorist and jailed on the infamous Robben Island for his role as a leader of the then-outlawed ANC. He later achieved international recognition for his leadership as president in rebuilding the country's once segregated society. The last chapters of the book describe his political ascension, and his belief"
"whom died in 2005. He currently resides in Castleton, Vermont. Ron Powers Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include ""White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal"", ""Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain"", and ""Mark Twain: A Life"". With James Bradley, he co-wrote the 2000 #1 New York Times Bestseller ""Flags of Our Fathers"". The book won the Colby Award the following year. As TV and radio columnist for ""Chicago Sun-Times"", Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1973 for his critical writing about television during"
"collaborative venture alongside Roberta Flack, Diana Krall, F. Murray Abraham, and Nona Hendryx, all of whom contributed a track to the meditation album ""Visionary Path."" Bassett narrated a track called ""Mountains."" WorldCat shows over 2,000 library collections include Lucinda's books. Lucinda Bassett Lucinda Bassett (born February 28, 1956) is an American self-help author and motivational speaker. Her book ""From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life"" is an international bestseller and has been translated into several languages. Bassett developed a self-help program called ""Attacking Anxiety and Depression"""
"life until age 29, when he underwent an ""inner transformation"". He then spent several years wandering ""in a state of deep bliss"" before becoming a spiritual teacher. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995 and currently divides his time between Canada and California. He began writing his first book, ""The Power of Now,"" in 1997 and it reached ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list in 2000. ""The Power of Now"" and ""A New Earth"" sold an estimated three million and five million copies respectively in North America by 2009. In 2008, approximately 35 million people participated in a"
"himself and his old friend Enoch Powell. He was, however, regarded by most as an imperialist. In 1963, Amery took charge of Quintin Hogg's campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party. In early 1975, he took part in a House of Commons debate on the Trades Unions Congress's invitation to Alexander Shelepin, the former Soviet KGB Chief, to visit Britain. He stated that ""more and more people are beginning to look upon the TUC as a Communist-penetrated show and this invitation must strengthen that view."" According to Margaret Thatcher's 1995 memoir, ""The Path to Power"", when Harold Wilson's Labour government"
"Absolute Power (novel) Absolute Power is a 1996 book by David Baldacci, which was made into a 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood. An experienced burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a billionaire's house with the intent of robbing it. While there, he witnesses the President of the United States and the billionaire's wife having sex. However, their lovemaking turns violent and Secret Service agents burst in and kill the woman, which Whitney also sees. The reason Whitney was able to witness the murder was because he was behind a large one-way mirror that was a secret door into a large closet"
"the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the 2002 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and the 2002 D.B. Hardeman Prize. In the fourth volume, ""The Passage of Power"", Caro covers Johnson's life from 1958 to 1964, the challenges Johnson faced upon his assumption of the presidency, and the significant accomplishments in the months after Kennedy’s assassination. The 736-page book was released on May 1, 2012. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award (2012; Biography), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2012; Biography), the Mark Lynton History Prize (2013), the"
"Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama, who was elected as U.S. President in 2008. The memoir explores the events of Obama's early years in Honolulu and Chicago up until his entry into law school in 1988. Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate. He had been elected as the first African-American president of the ""Harvard Law Review"" in 1990. According to ""The New York Times"", Obama modeled ""Dreams from My Father"" on Ralph Ellison's novel"
"mind. Upon leaving the House of Commons, Thatcher became the first former Prime Minister to set up a foundation; the British wing of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation was dissolved in 2005 due to financial difficulties. She wrote two volumes of memoirs, ""The Downing Street Years"" (1993) and ""The Path to Power"" (1995). In 1991 she and her husband Denis moved to a house in Chester Square, a residential garden square in central London's Belgravia district. Thatcher was hired by the tobacco company Philip Morris as a ""geopolitical consultant"" in July 1992, for $250,000 per year and an annual contribution of"
"Ron Powers Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include ""White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal"", ""Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain"", and ""Mark Twain: A Life"". With James Bradley, he co-wrote the 2000 #1 New York Times Bestseller ""Flags of Our Fathers"". The book won the Colby Award the following year. As TV and radio columnist for ""Chicago Sun-Times"", Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1973 for his critical writing about television during 1972. He was the first television critic to win the"
"A Taste of Power A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (Pantheon Books, 1992) is a memoir written by Elaine Brown. The book follows her life from childhood up through her activism with the Black Panther Party. In the early chapters of the book, Brown recalls growing up on York Street in a rough neighborhood of North Philadelphia. Due to her mother's persistence, she is able to attend an experimental elementary school in a nice neighborhood and becomes friends with some Jewish girls. From that point on, Brown describes being a part of two worlds. She'd act ""white"" while"
"Powers entitled The Socioeconomic Approach to Status Measurement (1983). He co-wrote two handbooks on immigration (International Handbook of Internal Migration with David F. Sly and William Serow in 1990 and Handbook of International Migration with William Serow, David Sly and Robert Weller in 1990). Living and Dying in the USA: Health, Behavioral and Social Forces of Adult Mortality (2002) was his last academic book written in English. Most recently, he published The Golden Door, an historical novel (2006). One of his most important contributions was his work on the Nam-Powers Index, which was developed in the 1950s and expanded upon"
"The Power (self-help book) The Power is a 2010 self-help and spirituality book written by Rhonda Byrne. It is a sequel to the 2006 book ""The Secret"". The book was released on 17 August 2010 along with an audio-book based on it. ""The Power""'s mission statement is, ""The philosophy and vision of the Secret is to bring joy to billions. To bring joy to the world, the Secret creates life-transforming tools in the mediums of books, films, and multi-media. With each creation from the Secret, we aim to share knowledge that is true, simple, and practical, and that will transform"
"1995 anthology ""Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap"", and was the guest editor of the Da Capo Press ""Best Music Writing 2010."" In 2000, Powers published the memoir ""Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America."" The book focuses on Powers' time living in Seattle, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. Joshua Klein of ""the A.V. Club"" described the project as ""us[ing Powers'] personal experiences to define how youth culture (what she calls bohemianism) has changed over the years (though she lingers mostly on the '80s)."" In 2005, Powers co-wrote the book ""Piece by Piece"" with musician Tori Amos. The"
"Susan Power Susan Power (born 1961 in Standing Rock, Dakota) is an American author from Chicago, Illinois. Her debut novel, ""The Grass Dancer"" (1994), received the 1995 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Best First Fiction. Susan Power was born in Chicago, Illinois and is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Tribe of the Dakotas. Her mother, Susan Kelly Power (Gathering of Stormclouds Woman, in Dakota), is also an enrolled member. She is a descendant of Sioux Chief ""Mato Nupa"" (Two Bears). Her father, Carleton Gilmore Power, is of New England Euro-American descent and worked as a salesman in publishing. One"
"The Power of Five The Power of Five (also known as The Gatekeepers in the US) is a series of five fantasy and suspense novels, written by English author Anthony Horowitz and published between 2005 and 2012. It is an updated re-imagining of Horowitz's ""Pentagram"" series, which the author had left unfinished in the 1980s. The series is published in the United Kingdom by Walker Books Ltd and in the United States by Scholastic Press. The novels deal heavily in the occult and examples of things such as human sacrifice and blood rituals are major plot elements, such as in"
"man who lacked, as Blair himself might put it, the New Labour baggage), by a whisker – just over 1%. And at a stroke, it's clear these great, vocal proselytisers of New Labour have unwittingly written its epitaph."" A Journey A Journey is a memoir by Tony Blair of his tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Published in the UK on 1 September 2010, it covers events from when he became leader of the Labour Party in 1994 and transformed it into ""New Labour"", holding power for a party record three successive terms, to his resignation and replacement"
"Bush at the White House dinner for Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall on November 2, 2005. President Bill Clinton told ""People"" in December 1997 that the first audiobook he ever listened to was ""Taking Charge"" by Michael Beschloss. In Bob Woodward's ""Plan of Attack"", President George W. Bush is quoted as telling the author Elie Wiesel in February 2003, ""I read your views on Auschwitz in Michael Beschloss' book"", referring to ""The Conquerors"". Bush also refers to Beschloss' book ""Presidential Courage"" in his 2010 memoir ""Decision Points"". John Frankenheimer's last film, ""Path to War"" (HBO, 2002),"
"Coming to Power Coming to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M is a 1981 book edited by members of the lesbian feminist S/M organisation SAMOIS. It is an anthology of lesbian S/M writings. It was quickly out-of-print and reached a worldwide audience the following year when it was reprinted by Alyson Publications. The book alternates short stories with advice on techniques, a model that has been used by various other BDSM books since then. A sequel """" was published in 1996, edited by Pat Califia and Robin Sweeney. Many of the authors in ""Coming to Power"" characterise sadomasochism as"
"The Power (Alderman novel) The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender. In June 2017, ""The Power"" won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The book was also named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. In December 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama named ""The Power"" as one of his favorite books of 2017. ""The Power"" is a book within a book: a"
"hope to those in true need of more conventional assistance in their lives. The Power (self-help book) The Power is a 2010 self-help and spirituality book written by Rhonda Byrne. It is a sequel to the 2006 book ""The Secret"". The book was released on 17 August 2010 along with an audio-book based on it. ""The Power""'s mission statement is, ""The philosophy and vision of the Secret is to bring joy to billions. To bring joy to the world, the Secret creates life-transforming tools in the mediums of books, films, and multi-media. With each creation from the Secret, we aim"
"final book, ""Your Road Map to Lifelong Happiness"", on these topics. Keyes married a fourth wife, Lydia, who survived him. He died of kidney failure in 1995. He was also survived by his children, Ken Keyes III and Clara Hardin. In his life Keyes sold or distributed millions of books, lectured to many people, spoke to dignitaries at political gatherings, and knew and moved among the self-help elite, including Wayne Dyer, who said that Keyes ""literally got me started on this glorious transformational journey."" His books are still available thirteen years after his death, and a small group of his"