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114 Books in the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political Category

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Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America Son of Birmingham: A Memoir Remember, You Are a Wiley Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Never Forget Our People Were Always Free A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story The Many Lives of Andrew Young The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House Carry on: Reflections for a New Generation My Vanishing Country: A Memoir Hubert Harrison The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Queens of the Resistance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Queens of the Resistance: Elizabeth Warren Queens of the Resistance: Nancy Pelosi Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman My Vanishing Country Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House Solitary The Huey P. Newton Reader, 2nd Edtion The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present The Evolution of Al Sharpton: The Provocative Politics of the People’s Preacher Obama: From Promise to Power The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) Power Forward: My Presidential Education Black Prophetic Fire Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964 The Rejected Stone Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus Of Nazareth The Courage To Hope Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom Interventions: A Life in War and Peace The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear Race, Power & Politics: Memoirs Of An Acorn Whistleblower Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey To The White House The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther A Reason To Believe: Lessons From An Improbable Life Hubert Harrison The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 White House Diary Going Rogue: An American Life Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition The Undiscovered Paul Robeson Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976 Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica Revolutionary Suicide: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States Michelle Obama: First Lady Of Hope The American Journey of Barack Obama Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama And Why He Can’t Win The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power Infidel Wellington Webb: The Man, The Mayor, And The Making Of Modern Denver Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Target Zero: A Life in Writing Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy All Things Censored The Undiscovered Paul Robeson An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. The Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley) The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley James Baldwin: The Legacy The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I: Selections, 1877–1934