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El nombre de Calomarde pertenece a los más oscuro, abyecto y olvidable de la historia. Frente a la fuerza de un Rasputín o de un Hoover, que pueden ser personajes históricos equivalentes, Calomarde se ha quedado en un chiste. No es tan raro, en un país que tiende a contarse más como comedia que como tragedia, pero da pena tanto desaprovechamiento.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson es madre de dos hijas, abogada y, también, el personaje político más popular de los Estados Unidos, por delante incluso de su marido, el actual presidente norteamericano, Barack Obama. Michelle Obama es, además de espontánea, inteligente y familiar, mejor comunicadora que su marido y uno de sus pilares más importantes de cara a la reelección, y ha sabido ganarse el cariño y respeto de sus compatriotas desde su papel de primera dama. Después de analizar en "El secreto de Obama" (LID Editorial) las habilidades comunicativas del presidente estadounidense...

Shattering the mold of the traditional political memoir, Unleashed is a candid, unrestrained, and revealing book by Boris Johnson, the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In Unleashed, Johnson takes listeners through all the big decisions during his time in power and why he took them. The challenges and crises, how they were resolved—or not—and how he nearly died from COVID; riots; crime; the London Olympics, and so much more.

La dernière lettre au monde d'un résistant politique qui a payé de sa vie le prix de ses convictions. Ce livre est l'histoire de la vie d'Alexeï Navalny : sa jeunesse, son appel à la résistance, son mariage, sa famille et son engagement pour la démocratie et la liberté en Russie face à une superpuissance déterminée à le faire taire.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.

La victoria de una mujer en un país de hombres, Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. Por primera vez en 200 años México eligió a una mujer como presidenta. El reconocido periodista y escritor, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, construye la narración más completa y documentada sobre la vida personal y política de Claudia Sheinbaum: el activismo de sus padres en el 68, su temprano compromiso social, su educación humanista y la pasión por la ciencia que la llevó de la unam a Berkeley; y de diseñar estufas de leña en la zona purépecha a desarrollar un sistema de vacunación idóneo en tiempo récord.

En 2017 se cumple el primer centenario del nacimiento de John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Un hombre que, a pesar de haber estado al frente de la presidencia de su país solo 1.032 días, marcó un antes y un después en la historia tanto de los Estados Unidos como del resto del mundo y lo hizo de tal modo que ha pasado a ser un verdadero mito.

Sin dudas se trata del más importante político británico del siglo XX, conocido principalmente por el valor transmitido en su mandato como primer ministro durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nació el 30 de noviembre de 1874 y murió el 24 de enero de 1965. Fue Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1953. Aficionado a la pintura, cronista, historiador, novelista, gestor de los aliados para derrotar al nazismo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre otras muchas facetas, hacen de la vida de este líder político por excelencia un inconfundible anecdotario.

More than at any time in American history, except perhaps Abe Lincoln's own, we need his help. And not just to inspire us. Over sixty-thousand books have been written about him, and most give us the heroic Lincoln. What we need now is a book that gives us the practical Lincoln. This is that book. It shows us how to survive our dangerously fractious age, one that is too often unmoored from truth, ignorant of facts, and unwilling to do the hard work of becoming better.

The ex-politician and bestselling author Alan Johnson, who was a Labour cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, takes on the life and premierships of Harold Wilson.

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.

We often think of the US presidents as being above the fray. But the truth is, the presidents are just like us. While some presidents like Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford became wildly successful with money, others like Thomas Jefferson and Joe Biden struggled to sustain their lifestyle. The ability to win the presidency is no guarantee of financial security, although today it’s a much easier path to monetize. In All the Presidents' Money, tax attorney and wealth manager Megan Gorman takes us on a journey to understand the different personal money stories of the presidents

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how exactly one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House.

James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, played a pivotal role in shaping the nation. Many presidents might be given such a description, but for James Polk, it was more or less a case of manifest destiny. It was Polk who led the charge to expand the United States from sea to shining sea. Under his watch, both the northwestern border with Canada as well as the southwestern border with Mexico were put in place.

For the first time, The Kennedys' New York: American Royalty in the Greatest City in the World reveals how New York City played a critical role in the Kennedy family saga. Through exhaustive research, the book will present listeners with a wealth of new and often surprising facts about America’s most fascinating family while explaining in detail how the time they spent in New York shaped the course of their lives. The Kennedys' New York provides listeners with a guidebook to the places that played a crucial role in this great American story.

In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides “the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date” (Robert Mann).

In Confronting the Presidents, O’Reilly and Dugard present 45 wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements—or lack thereof. These and many more questions are answered in each fascinating chapter of Confronting the Presidents. Written with O’Reilly and Dugard’s signature style, authority, and eye for telling detail, Confronting the Presidents will delight all listeners of history, politics, and current affairs, especially during the 2024 election season.

One Sunday in 2001 ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Peter Friedland received an unexpected call from Nelson Mandela’s personal physician. The former president was struggling to hear. Could Peter visit him at home? Friedland discovered that Mandela was using antiquated hearing aids and was struggling to maintain them. Soon he became a regular visitor to Mandela’s home in Houghton where he experienced the elderly statesman, in the frailty of old age, away from the crowds. He was full of stories and always bearing a lesson.

Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country’s governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail. Now Tony Blair has written the manual on political leadership that he would have wanted back in 1997, sharing the insights he has gained from his personal experience and from observing other world leaders at first hand, both while he was in office and since, through his Institute’s work with political leaders and governments globally.

The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth century offered political leaders enormous scope for changing the world. This book consists of essays about eight who, for better and for worse, did just that. Individually, each chapter offers fresh and often surprising portraits of the twentieth century's titans. Collectively, the essays present a vivid and revealing portrait of a turbulent half-century that shaped the world of today.