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Starting in December 2003, Jim Santos spent years fixing computers, wrangled BlackBerrys, and kept the wheels turning for the United States Senate — which meant he was also, quite literally, the fly on the wall in some of the most powerful (and most poorly password-protected) offices in America. He listened to Senator Ted Kennedy as they rode an elevator reminiscing about the days when opponents argued all day and grabbed drinks together that night. He tried to explain the laws of physics to a Senator who simply refused to accept them. He found "Senate1234" guarding the login to a U.S.

John Foster Dulles is a towering yet misunderstood figure in American and international history. Best known as secretary of state under Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the namesake for the Dulles airport, he has long been cast as a Cold War hardliner - moralizing, rigid, and ready to meet Soviet threats with nuclear force. Yet this view, while enduring, leaves much of his intellectual legacy unexplored.

In 46 BC, at just two years old, a young North African prince named Juba was paraded through the streets of Rome as part of Julius Caesar’s victory parade. This traumatic beginning, however, did not define his future. As a young man, Juba fought alongside Emperor Augustus and was sent back to...

'Ashok Khemka's career is an example of what happens to an officer when he stands up for what he considers to be right.' - Yashwant Sinha, Former Union Minister, Finance and External Affairs, Government of India 'There are very few like Ashok Khemka who never compromise on morality, ethics and...

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America. From The Nation magazine columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Zirin...

Niall Harbison sempre esbanjou talento. Desde muito cedo, seu olhar inovador lhe permitiu alçar grandes voos profissionais. Porém, traumas do passado sempre o acompanhavam. Em meio à ansiedade, depressão e vício em álcool, drogas e apostas, Niall passou a enfrentar grandes dificuldades que o levaram a falir.

This is the story of how Scott Presler got things done in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other cities that have crumbled under Democratic leadership. This is the story of how Scott Presler, quite literally, cleaned up America’s cities. It’s also the story of how Scott founded one of the most influential voter registration organizations in American history, helping Donald Trump to win the Oval Office in 2024.

Neste segundo volume da trilogia biográfica de Lula, Fernando Morais reconstitui os anos finais da ditadura até a vitória do ex-líder sindical em 2002 como o primeiro presidente operário da história do Brasil. Mantendo o ritmo eletrizante do primeiro volume, no qual acompanhamos Lula até...

الملكة نازلي التي قضت أربعين عاماً كملكة مصر المتوجة ووالدة الملك المنتظر ثم أربعين عاماً أخرى خارج مصر متجولة بين أميركا وأوروبا برفقة انبتها فتحية، وتعبر قصة...

Two words in red ink killed a screenplay and began a book. In 1985 a young dramatist sent a teleplay about William Jennings Bryan to a historian for review. It came back with BAD DRAMA scrawled across the title page, and the play was buried. Forty years later the writer went back to find out whether the verdict had fallen on his work or on the man he had dared to take seriously.

The first joint biography of the women who have shaped - and shaken - the modern Royal Family. Diana. Camilla. Catherine. Meghan. Outsiders by birth, insiders by marriage. Four women united by their decision to enter the most famous family in the world, and by their place in the centre of its...

Born to a single mother raising four children on welfare and food stamps, James Rogan seemed destined for failure. Instead, he became a gang murder prosecutor, California judge, majority leader of the California State Assembly, United States congressman, and one of the House managers selected to prosecute President Bill Clinton during his 1999 impeachment trial. Abandoned before birth by his bartender father and raised by a mother who later became a convicted felon, Rogan grew up in San Francisco's tough Mission District.

Firenze, 1938. Teresa ha diciassette anni quando, tra i banchi di scuola, si alza in piedi per contraddire un professore che difende le leggi razziali. In un'Italia che pretende silenzio, la sua voce è troppo libera per restare muta. Il prezzo è l'espulsione da tutti gli istituti del Regno. Ma Teresa non ha mai saputo piegarsi. Cresciuta accanto a un padre apertamente antifascista, in una famiglia già impegnata nella militanza, sceglie presto la lotta clandestina.

Con solo diecinueve años, David R. Carrillo se enfrentaba a una condena de cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional. Encarcelado en algunas de las prisiones más violentas de Colorado, sobrevivió a las políticas de las pandillas, al aislamiento y al peso aplastante de una sentencia que prometía que moriría entre rejas. Pero en los lugares más oscuros, descubrió un camino inesperado: la educación, la responsabilidad y la transformación.

From two of the world’s leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive—and most unsettling—account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. features almost 100 images, with dozens of archival photographs includes graphics outlining Trotsky's compound as well as the...

Un libro que atrapa y que nos permite conocer la apasionante vida y trágica muerte de una de las mujeres más importantes del siglo XX, fundadora de los Verdes en Europa. Petra Kelly fue una de las más destacadas activistas ecologistas y feministas del siglo XX. El 19 de octubre de 1992 la...

Es este un libro íntimo y valiente que traspasa la solemnidad de las fotografías oficiales, la sonrisa hierática, la parafernalia de la corte y también las biografías canónicas, para llegar por primera vez a ese territorio desconocido y misterioso que es el alma de Sofía.Una mujer fría...

'A memoir that doubles as a warning. Zahra Joya writes for the women the world abandoned to the Taliban's brutal gender apartheid - and refuses to let us forget them... [she] is one of the bravest journalists of our time' Malala Yousafzai 'Beautifully written and powerfully told. Joya's story...

A gripping new biography of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history: Cicero When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off and his tongue pierced with pins – a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a...

يستكمل محمد حسين هيكل سلسلة دراساته حول التاريخ الإسلامي، التي بدأها ﺑ «حياة محمد» و«الصديق أبو بكر»؛ حيث ينتقل المؤلف في كتابه «الفاروق عمر» لمناقشة حياة هذه الشخصية التاريخية البارزة، وذلك منذ ما قبل دخولها إلى الإسلام حتى توليها الخلافة عقب وفاة أبي بكر الصديق.