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"Ich hatte einen herrlichen Monat - ich habe ein Häuschen gebaut und ein Buch diktiert: 200 Ziegelsteine und 2000 Wörter am Tag", erzählte Churchill Stanley Baldwin über seine Parlamentsferien 1928. Entstanden ist ein Buch, in dem die Erzählfreude des Autors auf jeder Seite spürbar ist: Churchills Erinnerungen an seine ersten dreißig Lebensjahre, geschrieben aus einer "jeweils meinem Lebensalter angemessenen Sichtweise". Tatsächlich schönt Churchill nichts - weder seine miserablen Leistungen in der Schule noch seine peinliche Kriegsbegeisterung an der Militärakademie.

In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war. When Pravda, the biggest Soviet newspaper, published her letter—and Samantha received an unprecedented invitation to visit the Soviet Union—her family embarked on a historic journey.

Dawn Butler is the trailblazing Labour MP for Brent Central, best known for speaking truth to power. Her tireless campaigning to eradicate injustice, from the Met Police to the NHS, has changed lives, but until now, she's never talked openly about what has inspired and motivated her to persevere in the face of oppression. Drawing from lessons from her own life, Dawn shows how traditional routes to success and power are outdated, and reveals that it's easier than we think to disrupt a broken system.

In January 2020, Admiral Brett P. Giroir, MD, was among the first federal leaders tapped to handle the reintegration of US citizens from Wuhan, China, in the earliest days of what became the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, he was one of the few to see what everyone believed were the only Americans exposed to the novel virus at the time. Ultimately, Giroir would be called to serve on the White House Coronavirus Task Force under President Donald Trump.

Esta biografia do Marquês de Paranaguá tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela destaca-se a patriótica trajetória política de Francisco Vilela Barbosa, o Marquês de Paranaguá, sobretudo no conturbado período das regências, que antecederam a subida ao trono de D. Pedro II.

La mañana del 11 de septiembre de 1973, Claudio Jimeno salió raudo de su casa en dirección al Palacio de La Moneda. Era un asesor cercano al presidente Salvador Allende y no estaba dispuesto a abandonarlo en ese momento. Estuvo dentro de la casa de gobierno durante el bombardeo y, horas más tarde, fue arrestado por los militares golpistas que se la tomaron. Dos días después, fue fusilado y su cuerpo hecho desaparecer junto al de veintidós hombres más.

Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this “essential…grinding, momentum-building” (The New York Times) account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections—from the New York...

Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father chronicles the remarkable life of one of America's most controversial and significant founding fathers. From his humble beginnings in the British West Indies to his eventual rise to power in the United States government, Hamilton's story is one of perseverance and ambition. Through his contributions to the establishment of the country's banking and currency systems and his role in the ratification of the United States Constitution, Hamilton left an indelible mark on American history.

A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar—their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious agenda for the country, and their struggle to find their footing within the Democratic...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this illuminating and “scoop-rich biography…the tell-all tales rush forth” (Los Angeles Times) offering a “penetrating analysis of the ongoing Republican civil war through the eyes of one of its last embattled centrists” (Publishers Weekly). Few figures in...

Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol. Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022. Then his real ordeal began.

The New York Times bestseller Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden’s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation’s history. "You...

When running as the third-party Progressive (Bull Moose) candidate for president of the United States in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt recorded a number of campaign speeches. Represented here are all of the cylinder recordings he made for the Edison Company in August of 1912, including "The Progressive Covenant with the People," "The Right of the People to Rule," "The Farmer and the Businessman," and "Social and Industrial Justice."

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos. America is used to larger-than-life politicians, from Telfon Don to AOC and from...

Caesar is still remembered for winning a civil war and helping bring about the end of the Roman Republic, leaving a line of emperors in its place, but it’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without the template for such actions being set 40 years earlier.

Take a tour of some of the most extraordinary thinkers in history with ‘500 Quotes from Great Minds´. Packed with cherry-picked thoughts, reflections, and observations, it offers inspiring insights into almost every aspect of life, from love and death to art and politics. A superb addition to any coffee table, ‘500 Quotes from Great Minds´ is ideal for those who need a bit of extra motivation. Born in Paris, Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) was one of the most highly-regarded poets of the 19th century.

“One of the best and most readable overviews of the Democrats’ evolution on economic issues over the past half-century.” — The Wall Street Journal “Fast-paced, sober, yet hopeful . . . Green is a first-rate journalist.” — The Atlantic One of Politico’s 10 books we’re looking...

José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the “Great Liberator” Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Today he is revered by both the Castro regime and the Cuban exile community, whose shared veneration of the “apostle” of freedom has led to his virtual apotheosis as a national saint.

Titlen er præcis. Siden 1995 har Søren Ryge skrevet historier, især til Politiken, og med jævne mellemrum er de bedste af dem blevet samlet til en bog. I alt et par hundrede historier blev det til, som er blevet til en halv snes bøger, der tilsammen er solgt i flere hundred tusinde eksemplarer. Nu er tiden inde til den store finale. Det bedste af det bedste. Det er småt og stort, reportager og portrætter, altid den ægte vare. Søren Ryge er ikke digter – han er historiefortæller.

THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable rival—so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny’s name.

For millions of kids, high school is a tumultuous time, with social highs and lows, academic pressure, and extracurricular wins and losses, but for the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, those years were nightmarish.

Wilfred Petersen var fører for en revolutionær politisk sekt med få hundrede medlemmer - men alligevel fik han afgørende indflydelse på dansk nazismes historie. ”Følg Wilfred!” er fortællingen om Wilfred Petersen og hans folk fra mellemkrigstiden og ind i besættelsestiden. Det var et radikaliseret miljø, hvor gemen kriminalitet og fanatisme gik hånd i hånd med aktivisme. Wilfred Petersen var så uregerlig, at han ikke kunne sættes i bås. På den ene side var han en antitysk modstandsmand og på den anden side sendte han sine folk ud for at jage og afpresse jøder.

Hvem er personen bag den senere så markante statsmand, og hvad er han påvirket af? Anders Fogh Rasmussen giver et meget personligt portræt af sine forældre. Han skriver om at føle sig som en bondeknold på Viborg Katedralskole, men ender alligevel med at indtage talerstolen. Han fortæller om kærligheden til Anne Mette og om at være "weekendfar". Fogh skriver om sit liberale livssyn, der er formet af bonde- og andelsbevægelsen, modstandsbevægelsen og ender med at formulere sit frihedsbegreb inspireret af Grundtvig og Kierkegaard.

Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773-1833), which—almost inexplicably—freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s cousin, Thomas Jefferson, for failing to free his own slaves.

Escribí este libro para contar en primera persona quién es Marcelo Ebrard, el hombre, el político y el funcionario público que lleva 40 años de trayectoria. Porque mi ambición es que el país alcance al fin su máximo potencial. Tengo la capacidad y la experiencia que ningún otro político posee para aprovechar la enorme oportunidad que hoy se presenta en nuestro horizonte para lograr finalmente que México crezca, reduzca su pobreza y logre ser una sociedad de bienestar y prosperidad compartida.

Elena Garro ofrece en este libro dos semblanzas y una crónica histórica que dan cuenta de su innegable vocación periodística, una faceta suya que suele pasarse de largo.

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation.

Som departementschef i Finansministeriet og som en af frontfigurerne bag den grønne omstilling har Anders Eldrup sat et kæmpe aftryk på indretningen af det danske samfund. Fra han var ganske ung, har han følt det kald, at han vil efterlade et bedre samfund til kommende generationer, end det han selv overtog. Ved i mere end en generation at være en af landets mest indflydelsesrige topembedsmænd og erhvervsspidser har han levet op til sit kald. Anders Eldrup var i 28 år ansat i Finansministeriet.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada. John Diefenbaker...

Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community.