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A landmark memoir told through the campaigns and battles that Margaret has been involved in over the years, from being a rebellious teenager to a battling granny. Here, she shares anecdotes and stories that are interesting, important and funny. She draws lessons from her experiences, many of...

Did Savarkar battle a stormy sea when he attempted his legendary escape at Marseilles? Did Gandhiji and he stay together ‘as friends’ in London as Savarkar claimed during Gandhiji’s assassination trial? Did he turn against Muslims because of the cruelty of jailers in the Andamans? What is...

‘Invites us to learn from those more courageous than ourselves’ TIMOTHY SNYDER ‘Profound … feels essential in these times’ SARAH BAKEWELL ‘This book reminded me how to be brave’ RENI EDDO-LODGE An invigorating guide to fighting back – part philosophy, part history and part how-to...

Angesichts der neuen Bedrohung der Demokratie durch Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit erinnert der Schauspieler Matthias Brandt an den Mut der Widerstandskämpfer und -kämpferinnen gegen das NS-Regime, zu denen auch seine Eltern gehörten. Matthias Brandt hielt 2025 eine denkwürdige Rede zur Erinnerung an die Widerstandskämpfer des 20. Juli 1944 in der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Plötzensee – dem Ort, an dem viele der Beteiligten an dem Attentat gegen Adolf Hitler hingerichtet wurden.

من فضلك خمس دقائق.. فأصبحت الدقائق الخمس ستة وعشرين شهرًا!، الشرق شرق والغرب غرب ولن يلتقيا، هذا الكلام ليس تحاملًا على الغرب أو غير الغرب ؛ لأن الواقع والحال وما يجري وما يقال وسمعه كل من كان له قلب أو ألقى السمع وهو شهيد ينبئ عما يقال.

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, best-selling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive audiobook, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office.

The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration. Few have been a member of Donald Trump’s inner orbit longer than...

A powerful story of resilience, leadership and staying true to yourself. Annastacia Palaszczuk made history when she became the first woman to win the premiership of Queensland from opposition. She made history again when she became the first female premier in the nation to secure three...

An eye-opening exploration of the man at the center of a movement poised to reshape the fabric of American society. J.D. Vance has rapidly risen to power and become the most likely individual to succeed Donald Trump as leader of the MAGA movement. Yet his core political beliefs remain opaque; in...

I Over Atlanten tager Rufus Gifford – tidligere amerikansk ambassadør i Danmark – læserne med bag kulisserne i amerikansk politik. Han fortæller om sin tid som central figur i Demokraternes valgkampagner – fra Barack Obamas håbefulde år over Joe Bidens dramatiske exit og Kamala Harris' mislykkede valgkampagne og frem til det kaotiske magtskifte til Donald Trump og J.D. Vance. Gifford deler åbenhjertigt både sejre og nederlag og giver sit bud på, hvorfor Demokraterne mistede magten.

What happens when an unstoppable force meets the immovable chaos of the Wild West? Bass Reeves happened. Like thunder rolling across an endless plain, Bass Reeves transformed the American frontier forever. This isn't just another Wild West biography—this is the story of a man who became a natural force, reshaping everything in his path through sheer will, unshakeable courage, and an almost supernatural ability to bring justice to a lawless land.

Aaron Burr: The Complete Life Story offers a gripping and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures in early American history. In this compelling account, Aaron Burr emerges not merely as the villain of legend, but as a brilliant, ambitious, and deeply complex man shaped by revolution, rivalry, and political intrigue.

Autorka Mahatmy Witkaca dotarła do ostatnich świadków pamiętających jeszcze Witkacego: Oli Watowej, Ireny Krzywickiej, Anny Linke, Wally Pawlikowskiej. Pokazała też tragikomiczne, dopełniające katastroficzne wizje Witkacego, peerelowskie losy jego najbliższych, żyjących w zbydlęconym świecie, w którym on sam odmówił udziału, np. jego żony, Jadwigi Witkiewiczowej, chromej i starej, przepędzonej przez komunistę Polewkę z literackiego kołchozu na Krupniczej w Krakowie oraz samotność i nędzę „demonicznych" niegdyś modelek, wyprzedających jego obrazy w zamian za miejsca w domu starców.

Botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia’s founding fathers. Sir Joseph Banks was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a young man he accompanied Captain Cook on his voyage of discovery to Australia, in later years he...

Leading sociologist Xolela Mangcu draws on original interviews and archival research – as well as on his own unique understanding of the complexities of Black South African culture – to offer an important corrective account of Mandela's identity, character, and political career. Mangcu not only sets the record straight about Mandela's Thembu, rather than Xhosa, heritage, but also uncovers a fundamental political pragmatism Mandela developed thanks to his family's strategic alliances with colonialists and through his own Victorian-style education at leading British mission schools.

Alan draws on a distinguished career in law enforcement and security, having served with both the New York City Police Department and the State Police. For over fifteen years, he worked at the front lines of protection—investigating incidents, testifying in court, and responding to critical threats. As the owner of a successful locksmith business and a security operations specialist for a central station New York alarm company, Alan has seen the hidden world of security from every angle.

Explore the fascinating rise of one of the most unconventional political and economic figures of recent times in Javier Milei: A Biography. This audiobook delves into Milei’s journey from an outspoken economist and media personality to becoming a disruptive force in Argentine politics.

El nuevo libro de Luca Costantini es la crónica y la investigación más completa de la persona y el personaje, de su realidad diurna y nocturna, así como de sus intensas contradicciones, pero también del poder mediático y la opinión pública que quisieron hacer de él algo distinto. Esta es la historia de una personalidad aparentemente plana que se revela cada vez más compleja y con más aristas a medida que avanzan las páginas. Un relato único para entender la política de los últimos años en España y lo que puede hacer con quienes ambicionan el poder a toda costa.

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.

This is my story. Hi, I am Mike Harmon, a former Kentucky State Representative and former Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts, and this book discusses how I tried to be a Christ-Center Conservative in a fallen world as well as additional ramblings from this Don Quixote Statesman.

La hija del guerrillero y la loca es la poderosa memoria de una niña exiliada en la Ciudad de México a causa de la guerra en su país natal.

Chris Collins rose to the highest levels of business and politics—only to face a fall from grace that nearly destroyed him. As a successful entrepreneur and the first member of Congress to endorse Donald J. Trump for President, Collins was a power player at the peak of American influence. You could often find him in the halls of Congress, in Presidential meetings in the Roosevelt room, aboard Air Force One, or inside the Oval Office.

Barack Obama didn’t break the system. He mastered it. This is not a tribute. And it’s not a takedown. It’s a clear-eyed walk through one of the most disciplined presidencies in American history. From a kid with no defined center to a commander-in-chief who made calm look presidential and control look easy. He didn’t storm in with fire. He played the long game. He passed healthcare reform when everyone said it couldn’t be done. He ordered drone strikes with surgical silence. He addressed racism while trying not to set the country on fire.

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir. Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark...

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), Sohn einer alten englischen Adelsfamilie, britischer Premier und Nobelpreisträger für Literatur, hat schon viele Historiker beschäftigt. Churchill, der sich bereits in den dreißiger Jahren zur stärksten politischen Persönlichkeit Englands entwickelte, wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg eine Art lebendiges Symbol des nationalen Widerstands und einer der großen Heroen der Anti-Hitler-Koalition. Seit 1946 gab er dank seines internationalen Ansehens wichtige Impulse zur Schaffung des Nordatlantik-Paktes und zur wirtschaftlichen und politischen Einigung Europas.

È il 1998 quando Edgardo Sogno chiede ad Aldo Cazzullo di collaborare alla stesura delle sue memorie. Nasce così questo libro, nel quale rivivono le tradizioni di una famiglia risorgimentale, la Torino fascista e quella antifascista, la guerra di Spagna, la Resistenza. Ma soprattutto il progetto di quel "golpe bianco" che, negli anni Settanta, avrebbe dovuto fare dell'Italia una Repubblica presidenziale.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril, the newsbreaking memoir from Jordan's King Abdullah II revealing the secret, high level negotiations that could soon transform the map of the Middle East. Read by the actor Nadim...

An intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force from a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He wanted to be a new kind of king, one whose power was...

Five years in the making, ‘Cameron at 10’ is the gripping inside story of the Cameron premiership, based on over 300 in-depth interviews with senior figures in 10 Downing Street, including the Prime Minister himself. As dusk descended on 11 May 2010, David Cameron entered 10 Downing Street...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Woman's Work, written and read by Harriet Harman. The first time the story of women's progressive politics over the past thirty years has been told - by someone at the forefront of the movement Why does the political...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his...

After going through three elderly leaders in three years, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen as the new General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the relatively youg age of 54 in March 1985. Gorbachev hoped to build the Soviet economy to relieve the persistent shortages of consumer goods it faced, which were caused by enormous military spending of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev tried to introduce some economic reforms, but they were blocked by communist hardliners. Gorbachev then came to the belief that the Soviet economy could not improved without political reform as well.

A história real de um filho do Hamas que se tornou espião israelense, se converteu ao cristianismo e ajudou a combater uma das maiores organizações terroristas do mundo.

A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and embracing the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley—"a book that offers hope and inspiration in a moment of division and political unrest in America" (Zerlina Maxwell, author...

Une grande figure du socialisme français – La vie de Léon Blum, une des grandes figures du socialisme français, s'étend de l'affaire Dreyfus aux lendemains de la deuxième guerre mondiale, en passant par le Front Populaire dont il dirigea le gouvernement. Du marxisme dogmatique à une conception plus humaniste du socialisme. Intellectuel et homme d'action, il est emblématique d'une évolution longue et toujours en cours qui porte le socialisme français d'un marxisme dogmatique vers une conception plus ouverte et humaniste.

Der unerwartete Tod von Königin Elizabeth II. erschütterte die Welt. Nun hat Charles III. den Thron bestiegen, ihm zur Seite Gemahlin Camilla. Doch wer ist diese Frau, die den neuen Monarchen schon seit über 50 Jahren kennt und die so lange auf ihn wartete? Die Adelsexpertin Angela Levin pflegt ein enges Vertrauensverhältnis zu Camilla und zeigt nun den Menschen hinter dem vermeintlich blassen Image.

For six decades John Robert Lewis was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the "conscience of Congress."

« Le jour où on écrira l’Histoire, on dira que c’est une femme qui a permis à l’État juif de voir le jour » - David Ben Gourion. Née à Kiev en 1898, Golda Meir fuit avec sa famille la terreur des pogroms et trouve refuge aux États-Unis. En 1921, elle émigre en Palestine avec son mari et s’installe dans un kibboutz. Militante infatigable de la cause sioniste, elle signe la déclaration d’indépendance d’Israël le 14 mai 1948. Ministre du Travail, ministre des Affaires étrangères, secrétaire générale du Parti travailliste, elle est nommée Premier ministre en 1969, à l’âge de 71 ans.

Menachem Begin, israelischer Spitzenpolitiker: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving of the 20th century. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. The following recording is from her 1985 address to the US Congress.

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. These achievements were not in spite of her background but rather because of it. She persevered by being steadfast in her political convictions and unwilling to compromise on the issues she believed in.

“A persuasive affirmation of a shocking conspiracy theory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Unger has pursued the story of the October surprise for more than 30 years, often to his own cost. …peppered with amazing details… Den of Spies comes out in a world where dark...

With “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s. The Mexican War...