Are you only interested in Pub politicians? Because one of my favorite books is “Memoirs of a Superfluous Man” by libertarian writer Albert J. Nock if “Our Enemy, the State” fame.
“The Education of Henry Adams,” by Henry Adams (in the third person), grandson and great grandson of the presidents Adams who refers to himself as a “conservative Christian anarchist,” is a genuine classic. As is “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,” though I skipped the second half, which turns it into a sorta self-help book.
OMG though the book-on-tape version of “The Education of Henry Adams” could be used for enhanced interrogation, don’t you think?
Brilliant man, extraordinary family, in the thick of history—yet stupifyingly dull!