Trace Albright's life from a European ghetto to the corridors of power in Washington as he offers the definitive biography of the first woman to become the U.S. Secretary of State.

Barbara Jordan: American Hero

This long-awaited biography chronicles the life of the first black woman elected to the Texas State Senate, and the first black woman from the South in the United States Congress--a woman whose passion and eloquence has inspired millions of Americans.

I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

In I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, Jesse Ventura reveals the secret of his landslide electoral success--with record voter turnout--and maps his innovative strategies for pioneering a new era in American government. In his own inimitable words, he takes on bloated government, career politicians, and apathetic voters, and tells the wildly colorful story of his days as a navy SEAL, his nights in the pro-wrestling ring, and his experiences on radio and in films like Predator and Batman and Robin .

A lawyer by training and the mother of two young children, no one was more shocked than Pat Schroeder when she won a seat in Congress in 1972. In this candid autobiography, Schroeder recounts her career, telling how she struggled to find a place and a voice in the guy gulag of Congress

All Too Human: A Political Education

A personal and candid memoir by the former senior counselor to the president, George Stephanopolis, about life in the White House during Clinton's first term. A brilliant combination of pragmatic insight and idealism, "All Too Human" will do to politics what "Liar's Poker" did to Wall Street

Outsider in the House

Is progressive politics possible in the United States today? Bernie Sanders the first Independent elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 40 years has helped found the House Progressive Caucus, a 52-member group that recently provided the major opposition to Newt Gingrich's reactionary Contract with America. In a passionate and personal voice, here is the story of one man's battle against the establishment.