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Before the US Constitution defined the role of the President as the chief executive, fourteen men filled the role of President in Congress Assembled. Though initially an informal parliamentary role during the First Continental Congress, with the gravitas of war and then a Declaration of Independence, the role became more consequential with the Second Continental Congress. Then, the Articles of Confederation made it official, albeit still weak. However, the learnings from this role led to the Founders improving the position, preparing it for George Washington in the post-Constitution era.

Wer heute staunend vor der Akropolis in Athen oder den betörenden Fresken von Pompeji steht, übersieht leicht die breite Blutspur, die Griechen und Römer durch die Geschichte gezogen haben. Zwar grüßen aus der Vergangenheit klangvolle Namen wie Achill oder Romulus, Perikles oder Alexander, Caesar oder Augustus. Höchste Zeit für eine andere Geschichte der Antike! Von der Eroberung Trojas bis zum Fall Roms: Michael Sommer und Stefan von der Lahr erzählen uns die ganze verdammte Wahrheit, faktentreu, farbecht und ohne Tabus.

L'ultimo erede di una delle dinastie più prestigiose dell'aristocrazia italiana è oggi il piccolo Maffeo. Suo padre, il principe Urbano Riario Sforza Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, rievoca per lui in questo libro le avvincenti vicende famigliari attraverso quattro secoli di sfide, passioni, trionfi e cadute. Dal primo Maffeo destinato a diventare Papa Urbano VIII, uomo di potere e di cultura, che fece della bellezza una missione, a Cornelia Costanza che nel Settecento fu la promotrice del primo rococò italiano.

Discover the tumultuous life of Edgar Allan Poe, the legendary gothic author, marked by literary genius and personal tragedy, and explore the haunting themes that defined his timeless creations. From excerpts of his chilling tales like The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven to insightful commentary and unforgettable quotes about and from Poe himself, this book paints a vivid portrait of the man behind the pen.

Master of Rome tells the dramatic story of one of history's most intriguing figures, who rose from the fringes of Roman political society to unprecedented heights. Along the way, Potter identifies the extraordinary qualities that enabled Caesar to dominate the world in which he lived.

This is the extraordinary story of how a king who once hid in the swamps became the man who saved Christian civilization in England. From his childhood pilgrimage to Rome to his deathbed vision of a united England, discover how King Alfred earned his place as the only English monarch ever called “the Great.” This is the life and legend of Alfred the Great in full.

The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts. Joan of Navarre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Wydeville and Anne Neville were the queens who stood by England's sovereigns, caught up in wars that changed the course of their lives, and the course of history. They were also formidable women who defied the limitations of their times, often living out the brutal consequences of their determination.

He was Rome’s golden boy — beautiful, brilliant, beloved. A poet, a singer, a dreamer on the throne. But behind the lyre and the laurel, there was rot. This is not the story of an emperor. It’s the story of a boy raised to perform, handed absolute power, and slowly, irrevocably swallowed by his own illusion. Nero Caesar didn’t rule an empire. He directed one — turning politics into theater, cruelty into ritual, and Rome itself into a stage built to burn.

Flyv, vilde svaner bringer historien om Jungs familie – og Kinas – op til nutiden. Gennem deres respektive livsforløb beretter Jung Chang medrivende, dybt bevægende og uforglemmeligt om, hvordan det er at leve i et kommunistisk diktatur og om de trusler, det moderne Kina udgør for den internationale verdensorden. Bogen er på mange måder Jungs kærlighedsbrev til hendes mor, men den handler også om hendes bedstemor og hendes far, der begge døde tragisk under Kulturrevolutionen.

Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of slavery, working on ships that carried him across empire and into battle during the Seven Years War, he eventually managed to purchase his own freedom, and went on to become a leading figure in the early abolition movement. Published to coincide with the first attempt to abolish the slave trade in 1789, Equiano's remarkable autobiography became a sensation and turned its author into the most famous Black person in Georgian Britain.

Michael Roth schreibt von den "Zonen der Angst" der Berufspolitik. Vom innerparteilichen Machtkampf. Den sozialen Medien und dem drohenden Shitstorm. Dem Pranger, weil man die Rituale und die Sprache der eigenen Bubble, Partei oder Peer-Group infrage stellt. Dem falschen politischen Spiel mit gesellschaftlichen Ängsten. Darunter hat der Mensch Michael Roth immer stärker gelitten - und seine eigene mentale Erkrankung erst spät erkannt. Mit seinem Buch möchte er anderen Mut machen, sich den eigenen Ängsten zu stellen. Dabei schont er weder seine politischen Weggefährten noch sich selbst.

How does a man become a monster? This isn’t just a book about Hitler — it’s a psychological descent. How a Man Becomes a Monster: The Rise of Adolf Hitler is an, unflinching examination of the 20th century’s most infamous figure — not as a caricature of evil, but as a man who was broken, angry, and shaped by a world willing to listen to his rage. From childhood trauma to art school rejection, from the trenches of World War I to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, this book follows the slow transformation of Adolf Hitler with brutal clarity. It doesn’t just tell you what he did.

Brought to you from the Peter Capstick Library. Major W. Robert Foran once killed a lion while "garbed in dinner clothes and patent leather shoes" in the days when it was still possible to meet simba in the streets of Nairobi. He hunted the big five of the dangerous game, experienced many close shaves in the process. Buckley served in the Boer War, and in the British East Africa Police, a paramilitary group that blazed a rough trail through Kenya's early days. He survived injury and disease, and covered Theodore Roosevelt's famous safari for the Associated Press.

What if you were flying into war with barely three weeks of training? What if your first dogfight ended with your guns still on safety? What if a single wrong turn landed you in a prison camp halfway across Europe, unsure if you'd ever see home again? This is the extraordinary true story of Ken Cam, a young RAF Spitfire pilot hurled into the chaos of World War II far from ready—but never backing down.

Between May 21 and June 16, 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison went on a trip together through Upstate New York and parts of New England on horseback. Whether the country could overcome regional and political differences and remain unified, however, was still very much in question. Hence why some observers at the time wondered whether this excursion into Federalist New England by the two most prominent southern Democratic-Republicans, both future presidents, had an ulterior motive.

I never knew Morris Evans personally he lived centuries before me—but he’s my ninth great-grandfather. A free man of color who walked through shadows with dignity, Morris never wrote a memoir. History barely remembered his name. But his blood whispered to me until I heard it.

A powerful documentary that brings light to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville, TN and initial modeling of non-violent protest that transformed a nation.

Als Lea Ypi im Internet ein ihr unbekanntes Foto entdeckt, das ihre Großeltern 1941 beim Après-Ski in den italienischen Alpen zeigt, fragt sie sich, was sie wirklich über ihre Familie weiß. Warum hat ihre geliebte Großmutter Leman, genannt Nini, Französisch gesprochen, wenn sie doch in Saloniki aufgewachsen war, als Enkelin eines Würdenträgers? Was hatte sie bewogen, als junge Frau Griechenland zu verlassen und auf eigene Faust nach Tirana zu gehen?

Lerne in nur 5 Minuten die faszinierenden Lebensgeschichten der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten der Weltgeschichte kennen! Diese Hörbuch-Compilation präsentiert dir 20 kompakte Biografien von historischen Ikonen, genialen Denkern, mutigen Entdeckern und politischen Giganten – spannend erzählt, informativ verdichtet. Perfekt für zwischendurch, unterwegs oder als Einstieg in große Lebensgeschichten. Jetzt reinhören und Geschichte neu entdecken – 5 Minuten pro Biografie!

In brutally repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. What Christopher Marlowe finds on the other side of that door, and what he does with it, brings about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture, enabling the success of many others, including his youthful collaborator William Shakespeare. By the time of his murder in a Deptford tavern in 1593, the 29-year-old Marlowe will be the most celebrated dramatist of his time.