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Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past...to America’s 30th president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text....

In CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys, Patrick Nolan fearlessly investigates the CIA’s involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy - why the brothers needed to die and how rogue intelligence agents orchestrated history’s most infamous conspiracy. Nolan furthers the research of leading scholars who agree that there remain serious unanswered questions regarding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.

Durante muchos años, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, duquesa de Alba, quedó sepultada bajo demasiados estereotipos que no hacían justicia a un personaje fascinante. Este libro rescata a la mujer y al icono que marcó una época, se convirtió en una de las personas más famosas y admiradas del mundo y contribuyó, como pocas, a abrir España a la modernidad. Ella fue el mejor exponente de una aristocracia que se codeaba con escritores y artistas, que abrazaba la cultura y la moda, y que disfrutaba de una vida cosmopolita con amistades por todo el mundo.

Esta es la historia de Francisco Macías Nguema (1924-1979), hijo de un respetado brujo fang del clan de los Esangui, esforzado empleado de la administración colonial española, ferviente admirador de Francisco Franco, sometido por los blancos a múltiples afrentas personales y políticas —incluido un sonado episodio de cama—, codicioso político llamado a liderar la independencia guineana contra los deseos de Carrero Blanco, aupado por el incierto abogado Antonio García-Trevijano, autócrata y asesino sin escrúpulos… El periodista Antonio Caño, corresponsal en Guinea Ecuatorial durante la detención

Konrad Adenauer hat die Bundesrepublik Deutschland geprägt wie kaum ein Zweiter. Werner Biermann erzählt dieses Jahrhundertleben, das von Bismarck bis zu den Beatles reichte. Auf der Grundlage bisher nicht beachteter Quellen, jahrelanger Recherchen sowie ausführlicher Gespräche mit der Familie schildert er den ebenso faszinierenden wie dramatischen Lebensweg Adenauers, seine Ideen und Ziele, seine Schwächen und Ängste.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville. The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of...

The surprising story of how wrestling superstar Glenn "Kane" Jacobs beat all the odds to become the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Even in his heyday in wrestling, Jacobs was inspired to pursue politics by popular libertarian figures such as former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive biography of Andrew Jackson, a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever “Marvelously readable . . . brings alive a profoundly flawed but dazzlingly charismatic American...

“Never shall I fail my comrades. . . . I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.” —from the Ranger Creed In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan...

In tracing the life of Golda Meir, acclaimed author Deborah E. Lipstadt explores the history of the Yishuv and Jewish state from the 1920s through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, all while highlighting the contradictions and complexities of a person who was only the third woman to serve as a head of state in the 20th century.

Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege.

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent. Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through...

Audiobook read by Stephen Colbert and Father John Quigley POPE FRANCIS' DEBUT MEMOIR · A moving, deeply human account of the life and legacy of one of the bravest and most visionary leaders in modern history—A must read for all generations in a world yearning for hope and change For the first...

En la turbulenta Inglaterra del siglo XVI, la figura de Enrique VIII se alza como un soberano fascinante y contradictorio: príncipe humanista y rey guerrero, marido enamorado y esposo implacable, defensor de la fe católica y arquitecto de una Iglesia nacional independiente de Roma. Este libro recorre, a lo largo de doce capítulos, su vida completa: desde su juventud dorada y sus seis matrimonios hasta la ruptura con el papado, la disolución de los monasterios, las intrigas de la corte y el ocaso de un monarca consumido por la enfermedad y la paranoia.

Ma vie sur la route est le récit extraordinaire, profondément humaniste, d'une femme qui a passé sa vie à sillonner les États-Unis et à militer. Cette autobiographie en forme de road trip se lit comme la passionnante chronique de cinq décennies d'histoire américaine, depuis le discours de Martin Luther King jusqu'à l'évolution des droits de la communauté gay en passant par l'avortement ou la cause amérindienne. Une ode au nomadisme, à l'intranquillité qui nous pousse à partir à l'aventure et, avant tout, à la rencontre des autres.

I Over Atlanten tager Rufus Gifford – tidligere amerikansk ambassadør i Danmark – læserne med bag kulisserne i amerikansk politik. Han fortæller om sin tid som central figur i Demokraternes valgkampagner – fra Barack Obamas håbefulde år over Joe Bidens dramatiske exit og Kamala Harris' mislykkede valgkampagne og frem til det kaotiske magtskifte til Donald Trump og J.D. Vance. Gifford deler åbenhjertigt både sejre og nederlag og giver sit bud på, hvorfor Demokraterne mistede magten.

Autorka Mahatmy Witkaca dotarła do ostatnich świadków pamiętających jeszcze Witkacego: Oli Watowej, Ireny Krzywickiej, Anny Linke, Wally Pawlikowskiej. Pokazała też tragikomiczne, dopełniające katastroficzne wizje Witkacego, peerelowskie losy jego najbliższych, żyjących w zbydlęconym świecie, w którym on sam odmówił udziału, np. jego żony, Jadwigi Witkiewiczowej, chromej i starej, przepędzonej przez komunistę Polewkę z literackiego kołchozu na Krupniczej w Krakowie oraz samotność i nędzę „demonicznych" niegdyś modelek, wyprzedających jego obrazy w zamian za miejsca w domu starców.

The dramatic untold story of Eugénie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women’s rights, opened France’s schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown. Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first-century...

In November 2010 came the announcement that the nation had been waiting for: Prince William is to marry Kate Middleton. The couple had become engaged in October while they holidayed in Kenya, and the news further proved that their love story has captivated everyone. At last, this is the true insider account of the relationship that has so far defined the 21st century. He is the confident young Prince who is the future of the Royal Family. She is the royal bride who is thoroughly modern and has confounded all the stereotypes of how the future Queen Consort should be.