Sentences with phrase «biographies of its statesmen»

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Jordan contributes no biographies at all, though one would have thought that, even apart from its kings, some of its statesmen and scholars deserve a place alongside their colleagues in surrounding countries.

«For no reason, whatsoever, should the blood of any citizen of this country be shed for political reasons,» Prof. Addae - Mensah told Bernard Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show during an interview about his recently launched book: A Biography of Hilla Limann: Scholar, Diplomat, Statesman.

Something of the same passion pervades his very readable biography John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator (IB Tauris, # 25)-- Bright was a cousin of his great - grandfather.

He has written biographies of Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Enoch Powell, and reviews and writes on politics for the New Statesman.

Poor Richard's Almanac is the model for this topically organized biography of the printer, writer, scientist, statesman, inventor, and founding father.

Focusing on Benjamin Franklin's role as a scientist rather than a Founding Father and statesman, this Giants of Science biography, featuring Kulikov's hallmark exaggerated illustrations, explains the many ways that Franklin was the American manifestation of the European Enlightenment, putting his discoveries in clear historical context.

Imperium is narrated by the elderly Tiro (103 - 4 BC) formerly slave / secretary to the famous orator, statesman and political theorist Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BC)- an inspired touch as not only did Tiro exist, he was also the inventor of shorthand, a system he invented (or at least refined) in order to record Cicero's speeches verbatim, and there is evidence that he did actually write a biography of Cicero (which was sadly lost sometime in the Middle Ages).