Download or read book A Dictionary of Political Biography written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally compiled by an expert team of contributors, this dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1,100 men and women who have shaped political events across the world. Each entry includes an account of the background, career, and achievements of the individual concerned, balancing fact with critical appraisal. This second edition, commissioned especially for Oxford Reference, contains over 25 new entries, and the whole text has been thoroughly revised and updated.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Political Biography written by Dennis Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of political biography covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Political Biography written by Dennis Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of political biography covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Political Biography written by Christopher Riches and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of political biography covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Columbia Dictionary of Political Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on over 2,000 key political players such as heads of state, heirs apparent, party leaders, dissident group leaders, trade unionists, and leading lobbyists and campaigners

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Download or read book Safire s Political Dictionary written by William Safire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation, and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.

Download or read book Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography written by John Ransley and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dictionary of Labour Biography written by K. Gildart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XI of the Dictionary of Labour Biography maintains the strengths of earlier contributions to this well established and authoritative series. It incorporates many scholarly and original studies of Labour movement figures from a variety of periods and backgrounds together with special notes on related and neglected topics. Volume XI pays particular attention to the role and contributions of women and the multi-nationality of the British Labour movement. Each entry is accompanied by a thorough bibliography and incorporates the most recent historical scholarship in the field.

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time written by Francis Samuel Drake and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes of Native of Foreign Birth who Have Been Remarkable Or Prominently Connected with the Arts Sciences Literature Politics Or History of the American Continent written by Francis Samuel Drake and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary written by David Crystal and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present