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Published in 1927, The President’s Daughter is one of the most controversial political memoirs in American history. In the book, Nan Britton recounts her long secret romantic relationship with Warren G. Harding, whom she claimed was the father of her daughter, Elizabeth Ann. The memoir was...

He was the seventeenth son of a slave wife. By fifty-four, he had killed three thousand Americans on a clear blue Tuesday morning and changed the trajectory of the twenty-first century. You think you know the story of Osama bin Laden. The cave. The fatwa. The towers. The SEAL raid. You don't.

Друзья и враги за глаза называют Мухаммеда ибн Салмана Аль Сауда просто MBS. Наследному принцу Саудовской Аравии не исполнилось и сорока, но его уже считают одним из наиболее влиятельных и противоречивых политиков в мире. Принц обаятелен, хитер и умеет рисковать, он тщательно следит за своей репутацией, ценит преданных союзников и общается на равных с политиками Запада и Востока. За короткий срок он одержал победу в дворцовых интригах, либерализовал строгие нормы общественного поведения и объявил масштабную программу реформ, призванных снизить зависимость страны от нефтяных доходов.

Insightful and wildly entertaining, Ladies Man gives voice to the women left as a footnote in JFK's legacy, while portraying a larger-than-life existence that was as troubled as it was extraordinary. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a born leader-bold, charismatic, and able to charm his peers and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | READ BY THE AUTHOR "Scott Jennings is a Patriot from the Great State of Kentucky... A Revolution of Common Sense was directly inspired by my Inaugural Address and the many Common Sense actions we have taken in our effort to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.... Scott totally...

Follow Lincoln's day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the North and South, which...

Wer war Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin, nur ein Name aus dem Geschichtsunterricht oder der Mann, der mit Idee, Organisation und Gewalt ein Weltreich aus den Angeln hob? Dieses Hörbuch führt mitten in die dramatischen Jahre von Zarismus, Krieg und Revolution und zeigt, warum Lenin bis heute fasziniert und erschreckt, als Revolutionsführer, kommunistischer Staatsmann und Gründer der Sowjetunion.

'Catherine and Diana. Two women, born twenty years apart, who never met, yet found themselves bound by a title, a ring and a man named William.' A title in use for over 700 years, the Princess of Wales is one of the most senior positions in the British royal family. In her new book, bestselling...

This column has been partially reconstructed from the sketches that were later reprinted in the first edition of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. Young George Washington was actuated in all things by the highest and purest principles of morality, justice and right. Learn about the life of George Washington, America's first president.

First published as opinion pieces, the essays in Divining Duterte provide contemporaneous commentaries on the context, course and consequences of the policies Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pursued after his 2016 election.Duterte became the first president in seventy years to come from...

A reappraisal of the brief presidency of Gerald Ford, called to leadership in the midst of scandal, stagflation, and an energy crisis. In this book, Yanek Mieczkowski reexamines Ford's two and a half years in office, showing that his presidency successfully confronted the most vexing crisis of the postwar era.

A primeira—e aguardada—biografia de vulto de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Para além de juízos ou paixões, Lula está entre as maiores figuras políticas da história brasileira. Único presidente do país com origens operárias, e campo magnético de um partido profundamente original em suas raízes, exerceu o poder carismático e a influência de modo mais duradouro que qualquer outro homem público no período republicano, salvo talvez Getúlio Vargas–com quem também compartilha a virulência dos adversários.

Courage, grit, and adventure ride into history. In The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt delivers a vivid firsthand account of the legendary volunteer cavalry regiment that became one of the most iconic forces of the Spanish-American War. Blending battlefield action, frontier spirit, and...

Discover the remarkable life of Chester A. Arthur... Chester A. Arthur is not a name that immediately comes to mind when one thinks of great American presidents. He is, in many ways, the forgotten man of the White House, and most Americans would probably struggle to place him, let alone recall what he actually did. And yet his story is remarkable and, in many ways, surprising.

Calling the Presidents is your front-row seat to history's greatest leadership laboratory. After visiting every presidential library, home, museum, and gravesite, Ken Hartley distills lessons from all 47 presidential terms into practical insights you can apply immediately in leadership, business, and life.

From the creators of the hit podcast of the same name, Who Killed JFK? unravels a tangled web of evidence—including recently declassified documents, rare interview transcripts, and existing expert research—and presents the definitive analysis of the Kennedy assassination. Since the fateful...

In his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but they had one thing in common: Each played tennis with the president and advised on policy matters. Roosevelt half-joked that the public would never know how much these tennis partners did to make his administration a success. Journalists dismissively called them the “Tennis Cabinet,” making light of their contribution, but Roosevelt knew otherwise.

Auch 200 Jahre nach seiner Geburt ist Otto von Bismarck eine hochgradig umstrittene, von Mythen umwobene Gestalt. Christoph Nonn schaut hinter die Legenden und entdeckt einen Mann, dessen Zeit unserer heutigen verblüffend ähnlich ist. Kriegstreiber oder Friedenspolitiker, Modernisierungsverhinderer oder weißer Revolutionär, Nationalheld oder Dämon der Deutschen: Die Liste der Beinamen, die Bismarck gegeben worden sind, ist lang. Doch der „Reichsgründer" war weder ein Übermensch noch ein Monster.

"...David Timson narrates this sweeping history of the court of King James I...Timson's emotionally demonstrative tones echo throughout this complex study of Villiers and the British court, adding suspense to every turn..." — AudioFile Magazine An absorbing account of the conspiracy to kill...

The Founding Fathers series includes: George Washington by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn In this thoughtful and incisive biography, Burns and Dunn dissect the strengths and weaknesses of Washington's presidential leadership, from his lasting foreign and economic policies to his polarizing...