Titoli in Politici

Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the agency's history.

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.

As a young woman growing up in Africa, 17-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts.

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture. My Own Words offers...

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens. How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the...

From the moment he burst onto the national political scene, Barack Obama has fascinated people more than any politician in decades. Many biographers have already retold his story, but no previous book truly explains how his mind works, what passions drive him, or what makes him such an effective leader.

Narrated by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro himself, this audiobook offers a grounded and intimate portrait of life in public service. Where We Keep the Light is the story of public service and personal faith. From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and practiced the power of showing up...

From a seasoned political journalist, an eye-opening examination of Tucker Carlson’s rise through conservative media and politics, and his ideological transformation over the past thirty years, tracking the concurrent shifts in the political and media landscapes which have both influenced and...

As former Prime Minister and our longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story. In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student and the death of his daughter within days of her birth, he shares the passionately held principles that have shaped and driven him, reminding us that politics can and should be a calling to serve.

In A Fighting Chance, an unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an...

Publicada en 1929, "Fouché, el genio tenebroso", es una de las mayores obras maestras de Stefan Zweig. Una obra apasionante e hipnótica, que no deja indiferente a nadie. Joseph Fouché (1759 - 1820) fue uno de los personajes más controvertidos de la Revolución Francesa. Hipócrita, tenebroso y maquiavélico, votó a favor de la muerte de Luis XVI y María Antonieta y fue responsable de sangrientas represalias. Luego, sintiéndose amenazado por Robespierre, participó activamente en la conspiración termidoriana.

Conquistador español de Puerto Rico y descubridor de Florida, y eterno buscador de la 'fuente de la eterna juventud', fue paje en la corte de Fernando el Católico y combatió en la conquista del reino de Granada. Sin embargo, tras su primer viaje a América lo con Cristóbal Colón en 1493, alcanzaría la inmortalidad histórica.

Personaje fascinante y contradictorio, es uno de los políticos estadounidenses más recordados de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Tras convertirse en el primer católico que accedía a la presidencia, impulsó una serie de reformas que quedaron truncadas por su misterioso asesinato en 1963, un magnicidio cuyos móviles nunca han quedado del todo esclarecidos y que ha dado lugar a múltiples conjeturas.

Sin duda, el referente máximo de la extinta Unión Soviética. De férrea mano, dirigió la construcción del socialismo en la URSS, que pasó de ser un país rural a una potencia industrial, elevando el nivel de vida de la población. En contraparte, dirigió un régimen represivo de la población, caracterizado por la presencia de campos de trabajo, campañas de represión política, y deportaciones.

Pocos reyes de España han sido tan vituperados, loados y sujetos a juicio general como el gran Habsburgo Felipe II, llamado el "Prudente". Presentado por sus defensores como arquetipo de virtudes, y también como un monstruo fanático y despótico por sus enemigos, su gobierno fue el gestor de uno de los momentos más prósperos e importantes del Imperio Español en el siglo XV.

La biografía de un ser de una vida que parece haber sido sacada de la ficción. Gran investigador judío, tras haber estado prisionero en el campo de concentración de Mauthausen-Gusen durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, dedicó la mayor parte de su vida a localizar e identificar criminales de guerra nazis que se encontraban fugitivos, para así llevarlos a la justicia.

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.

James C. Humes reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain's most famous prime minister and how his critics' perceptions of them shaped his political career. Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did.

On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana: W.E.B. DuBois. In this new biography, Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the Twentieth Century through Du Bois’s revolutionary life.

Jacob Mark er vendt tilbage til Folketinget efter en syv måneder lang stress-sygemelding, og han kastes direkte ud i arbejdet. Privat har han sammen med sin kone, borgmester i Holbæk Kommune Christina K. Hansen, købt en bondegård, og her kommer lille Theodor til verden, mens en tanke fylder mere og mere som månederne går: "Skulle jeg ikke være vendt tilbage?" Tanken ender i et opsigtsvækkende politisk exit. Jacob Mark træder ud af rampelyset og ind i en mere normal tilværelse, hvor der også er tid til familieliv, traktorkørsel og æbleplantage.