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Bei diesem fesselnden Hörbuch, gelesen von dem bekannten deutschen Schauspieler und Synchronsprecher Michael Schwarzmaier, möchte man am liebsten gar nicht mehr auf Pause drücken. Markus Wehner beleuchtet zusammen mit Eckhart Lohse detailliert das faszinierende Leben eines SPD-Politikers, der viel Positives geleistet hat, 2011 als beliebtester Politiker Deutschlands galt und dennoch keine einzige Wahl gewann. Wer ist dieser Mann und wie gut eignet er sich für eine politische Spitzenposition?

Nur sechs Tage lang, vom 7. bis zum frühen Morgen des 13. April 1919, währte die Bayerische Räterepublik, die auch als "Dichterrepublik" in die Geschichte einging und deren wichtigstes Sprachrohr der Anarchist Erich Mühsam war. Sechs Tage, die bis heute sozialrevolutionäre Träume von einer gesellschaftlichen Alternative zu Parlamentarismus einerseits und Parteidiktatur andererseits beflügeln.

In his memoir, Grant recounts his early life, including his military education at West Point and his service in the Mexican-American War. However, the heart of the book focuses on his leadership during the American Civil War. Grant provides detailed insights into his strategic decisions, battles, and interactions with other prominent military figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee.

In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s memoir is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s story is unique—and uniquely entertaining—and he tells...

In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of powe, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.

In the first multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America's 16th president.

A revelatory journey inside the world of Fox News and Roger Ailes—the brash, sometimes combative network head who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR When Rupert Murdoch enlisted...

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD RUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Explosive.”—The Washington Post “Devastating.”—The New Yorker “Unprecedented.”—CNN “Great reporting...astute.”—Hugh Hewitt THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY...

DER MANN, DER HITLER TÖTEN WOLLTE - DAS LEBEN DES GEORG ELSER. Am 8. November 1939 explodierte im Münchner Bürgerbräukeller eine Bombe. Eigentlich hätte ...

An unprecedented portrait of the Renaissance-era Borgia family and their storied milieu, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tudors “A vivid and at times startling reappraisal of one of the most notorious dynasties in history . . . If you thought you knew the Borgias, this book...

Pardon of Innocence tells the remarkable true story of Michael Flynn, a retired three-star general and former National Security Advisor who rose from humble beginnings to serve at the highest levels of US government. Flynn’s memoir chronicles his journey from a New England hometown to military service in Iraq and Afghanistan, emphasizing his dedication to protecting Americans. Faced with challenges from a network of Deep State operatives who perceived him as a threat, Flynn fought against false accusations and a corrupt justice system.

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantv°namo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantv°namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime...

Wenn Palermo heute so sicher ist wie andere Großstädte auch, wenn die Mafia zwar nicht besiegt ist, aber doch ihre Macht über die öffentliche Meinung verloren hat, dann ist dies vor allem der Zivilcourage von Leoluca Orlando zu verdanken. Als der Rechtswissenschaftler 1985 zum Bürgermeister von Palermo gewählt wurde, war er der erste Amtsinhaber, der das Schweigen über die Mafia brach und bei öffentlichen Aufträgen nicht mehr mit ihr paktierte. Seitdem steht er unter Polizeischutz.

Als am 29. April 1945 die Amerikaner das Lager Dachau befreien, stoßen sie zu ihrer größten Überraschung auf sieben Frauen mit Babys. Ein Wunder wird bestaunt inmitten der Zerstörung. Das Buch von Eva Gruberová und Helmut Zeller erzählt die unglaubliche Geschichte von Eva und Miriam, zwei dieser sieben jüdischen Mütter, die verschiedene KZs durch viele glückliche Zufälle überstehen konnten und heute in Kanada und der Slowakei leben. Das Buch beginnt mit den frühen 40er Jahren, als die beiden jungen Frauen in Ungarn hoffnungsvoll ihr Leben planen und sich verlieben.

Wolfgang Bosbach hat etwas zu sagen - notfalls auch gegen die Linie der eigenen Partei. Seine Geradlinigkeit kommt bei den Bürgern an, die im unübersichtlichen und manchmal auch als unehrlich wahrgenommenen Politikbetrieb nach Orientierung suchen. Ein Interview von Hugo Müller-Vogg mit Wolfgang Bosbach über die Herausforderungen in Zeiten der Anti-Terror-Politik und der großen Flüchtlingsströme, über Werte in der heutigen Gesellschaft und über Deutschlands Rolle in Europa und der Welt.

Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today “A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the...

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his...

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.

The inspiration for the upcoming film Reagan starring Dennis Quaid and directed by Sean McNamara “Combining the skills of great story-telling with his commitment to scholarly detail, Paul Kengor has written an important book that also makes for a fascinating read. The Crusader will not only...