Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, due out from Henry Holt on August 29, is a kid-friendly version of 2016's Our Revolution, in which Sanders chronicled his upbringing, first brushes with socialism, and emergence into American politics capped off, of course, with an outline of his policies.
This year's runaway success (so far) is The Life of Lee by Lee Evans Michael Josephh, £20), which charts this mimetic comic's tough beginnings, from sink-estate upbringing to first paid gig.
Short traces much of what she is to her upbringing – the second of seven children born to a Catholic schoolteacher father from County Armagh.
Jessica has been a constant source of pride, joy and motivation since the day she was born, but I don't want her to grow up in a society that tells her that her upbringing is second rate, nor do I want her to grow up in a society where children just like her are trapped in poverty because they have had the misfortune to see their parents split up.
"I had a strong religious upbringing, and the first word on my first LP is Jesus.
There, Mr. Reid recalled fondly his small-town upbringing and his first gun, as well as his long friendship with Mr. LaPierre.
But the birth triggered a reconciliation, of sorts, when Sajad's mother moved in to supervise the upbringing of her first grandson.
For all that, Goold's background is standard-issue theatre director (middle-class London upbringing, independent school, first in English at Cambridge); the director "really struggled after graduating".
And I wouldn't want to leave out "Unreliable Memoirs," the book about my childhood and upbringing that was first published more than 30 years ago and has gone on selling everywhere in the English-speaking world except in America.
We got a glimpse of Bryson's upbringing in his first book, "The Lost Continent" (1989), in which he nominally retraced family car trips while commenting on contemporary American culture and behavior — a dyspeptic "Blue Highways".
She admits to being surprised by Thatcher's modest upbringing, when she first saw the reconstruction of her parents' Grantham home and shop: "I was thinking this grand lady came from not much at all, and that shocked me.
