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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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

Discover the rise of one of the most intriguing and influential leaders of the modern era in Nayib Bukele: The Digital Age President. This audiobook takes you through Bukele’s journey from a young entrepreneur to becoming the President of El Salvador, where his bold leadership and unconventional strategies have captured global attention.

Nick Adams has authored the ultimate book on President Trump's past, present, and future. Inside this book, you will learn what makes President Trump a uniquely great figure in our Great American Story. You will come to understand how President Trump's own words, dating back decades, foretold everything that has happened since.

Step into the life of one of the most polarizing and influential figures in modern history with Donald Trump: A Biography. This compelling audiobook explores Trump's journey from a young real estate developer in New York to a global business magnate and the 45th President of the United States.

Dagobert, Napoléon, Henri IV, Clemenceau ou Jacques Chirac, Marie-Antoinette ou Jeanne d'Arc, 40 personnages incontournables de notre histoire s'allongent sur le divan du Docteur Michel Kummer et se confient pour révéler quelques secrets de leur personnalité forcément complexe, de leurs troubles ou de leurs différences. Sa galerie de portraits est impitoyable : rois bipolaires, souffrant du syndrome de Stockholm, présidents pervers narcissiques et complexes d'Œdipe en série !

""One of the best Political Biography books of all time"" - BookAuthority George Sorial, a top Trump Organization executive, shares behind-the-scenes stories of Trump’s leadership, problem solving, and success...

In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but disagreements over the way forward had led to a stalemate. As the leader of one party, Oliver Cromwell found himself again at the center of events. In the second volume of his pioneering biography, Ronald Hutton traces Cromwell's career from 1647 through to his seizure of supreme power.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on seven years of research with primary documents, some of them never tapped before, this is destined to become the Grant biography of our times.

Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso’s studio in the south of France?

كان ميخائيل غورباتشوف، سياسيًا بارزًا وقد كان له دور كبير في إنهاء الحرب الباردة بين روسيا والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، إضافةً لدوره في هدم جدار برلين. وقد كان...

Anker Jørgensen er den eneste statsminister, Danmark har været på fornavn med – kendt og elsket som en mand af folket. I denne bog kommer vi tæt på mennesket og de mindre belyste sider af hans væsen: videbegæret, filosofien og litteraturen. Forfatteren begiver sig sammen med Anker ud for at besøge nogle af de steder, der har spillet en rolle i hans liv. Tilbage til Christiansborg, til den gamle skole og ud på Vestre Kirkegård, hvor hans Ingrid ligger og venter på ham.

Lincoln : Dans ses propres mots comprend ses réflexions sur sa vie et sur son époque. Cela inclut ses cinq discours les plus célèbres : La Maison Divisée, l'Éloge funèbre d'Henry Clay, ses deux Discours d'investiture, et le Discours de Gettysburg, ainsi que la Proclamation d'émancipation. L'audiolivre parfait pour une discussion sur la période entre la Déclaration d'indépendance et sa mort.

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...