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From the halls of the Philadelphia City Council to the challenges of single motherhood, Blondell Reynolds-Brown's memoir Walking a Tightrope Backward in High Heels offers an unflinching look at what it takes to succeed in the bruising arena of big-city politics. As one of Philadelphia's most influential councilwomen, Reynolds-Brown shattered glass ceilings and championed transformative legislation for women, children, and families during her remarkable twenty-year tenure.

Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow's Red Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his teachings reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today's capitalist society, riven by class inequality and imperialist wars, perhaps it is worth returning to this communist icon's demand for "Peace, Land and Bread", and his radical understanding of democracy.

Catherine Tsalikis traces Chrystia Freeland's remarkable journey from the northwestern Alberta town of Peace River to Moscow, London, and New York, where she spent two decades as a journalist, to the halls of Parliament Hill as deputy prime minister and finance minister in Justin Trudeau's Liberal government.

Das große Hörbuch des ehemaligen NATO-Generalsekretärs über seine zehn Jahre an der Spitze des Bündnisses Nach der Wiederwahl von Donald Trump ist die NATO in ihrer Existenz bedroht. Dabei wird die Allianz, wie ihr ehemaliger Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg zeigt, in Zukunft eine entscheidende Rolle spielen, um unsere Sicherheit und Freiheit zu garantieren. Stoltenberg hat das Bündnis über zehn Jahre lang durch eine hochdramatische Zeit geführt. In diesem Hörbuch führt er uns hinter die Kulissen der Weltpolitik seit 2014.

They locked him up to send a message. This book sends one right back. When senior Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro refused to kneel before the Democrats’ rigged J6 witch hunt, they came for him with guns and handcuffs. Ambushed by five armed FBI agents at Reagan airport, shackled in leg irons, and strip-searched, Navarro became the first ever top presidential aide in US history to be put in federal prison for defending the Constitution.

In his critically acclaimed account of one of Europe’s most important but often forgotten figures, former BBC foreign correspondent and EU insider Martyn Bond tells the extraordinary story of Richard Count Coudenhove-Kalergi. Known as “The Grandfather of Europe”, he was a personal friend of Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer and also served as the model for the fictional resistance hero Victor Laszlo in the film Casablanca. Actor Christopher Kent narrates this compelling new audiobook version of Martyn Bond’s original biography.

Esiste ancora la sinistra in Italia? Sembra di sì, ed è difficile dire se sia un bene o un male. Dopo avere a lungo osservato e raccontato la politica italiana nel corso della sua carriera giornalistica, in Tipi sinistri Giampaolo Pansa traccia un ritratto ironico e sferzante dei capi e capetti che hanno causato la rovina della sinistra italiana, e colloca i big rossi in una sequenza di gironi infernali che spiega molte delle loro disgrazie.

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history. Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected...

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller Named a best book of the year by Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and Kirkus Reviews “One of the best books on politics our era will see . . . A book of astonishing literary quality.” —Matthew Parris, The TLS “[Rory Stewart] walked across Asia, served...

Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. While he could be cold and arrogant, he was an invaluable friend to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as US secretary of defense and had a deeply moving relationship with Jackie Kennedy. McNamara was the leading advocate for American escalation in Vietnam during the summer of 1965, strongly urging Johnson to send hundreds of thousands of American ground troops just weeks before he concluded that the war was unwinnable.

Frederik Schindlers Hörbuch "Höcke" ist eine investigative Recherche über das Innenleben der AfD und ihren prägendsten Politiker, den Thüringer AfD-Chef Björn Höcke. Wer verstehen will, wie Höcke tickt und wie er es geschafft hat, dass seine Partei längst kein Problem mehr mit ihm hat, muss dieses Buch lesen. Wer ist der Mann, der im ganzen Land Anhänger hat? Wie hat es Höcke geschafft, aus einer rechtskonservativen Partei eine vom Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz als gesichert rechtsextremistisch eingestufte Bestrebung zu formen? Was ist Höckes Ziel und wie will er es erreichen?

A former White House aide, CEO, global philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur, Trevor Neilson once believed the Democratic Party could solve America's biggest problems. He no longer does. In The Forgotten Center, Neilson tells the story of his political and personal transformation—from working in the Clinton White House to witnessing the collapse of California’s public institutions during wildfires, crime waves, and homelessness.

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.

O enredo do volume 2 de Trapaça – Saga Política no Universo Paralelo Brasileiro começa horas antes do ponto em se encerra a história do volume 1. O diapasão temporal vai da madrugada do dia 1º de outubro de 1992, quando Itamar Franco assumiria a Presidência da República substituindo Fernando Collor, que passava a responder a um processo de impeachment, até a segunda-feira 26 de abril de 1999 quando o ex-presidente do Banco Central, Francisco Lopes, sai preso do Senado Federal.

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.

A memoir—and a manifesto—like no other, by a true maverick in American politics. This program features a foreword by legendary football coach Nick Saban and is read by the author, former United States senator Joe Manchin. Dead Center: It is where Senator Joe Manchin III has stood his entire...

This book is about our family, a family who had no idea who they were in history. What we discovered, through genealogy, was a family whose bloodline is one of the most royal in Europe, from a Roman Senator to an Episcopal Bishop, to eight kings. Our family thought they were fishermen, from the lowlands of Scotland. This book is the story of our discovery, a shocking and magnificent discovery.

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?

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In The Incidental Feminist: Friend, foe, femme fatale: The truth about Thatcher, Tina Gaudoin investigates the complexities of the woman behind the tropes. Drawing upon explosive new material from the archives and interviews with her contemporaries, Gaudoin reveals how Thatcher triumphed over rampant misogyny and class prejudice to normalize female power and manipulated her femininity, sexuality, and intellect to become the most powerful woman in the world.