Ergebnis für "Chancer" in Politik

Der CDU-Politiker Peter Tauber hat ein autobiografisches Buch für alle Männer geschrieben, die sich in der Lebensmitte Fragen nach dem "Warum?", "Wozu?" und "Wohin?" stellen. Und er bietet nebenbei einen spannenden Blick hinter die Kulissen der Spitzenpolitik. Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann? Was macht ein Mann, wenn er merkt, dass er nicht mehr kann und nicht mehr weiter weiß? Wofür lohnt es sich eigentlich, sich derart aufzureiben? Und was passiert mit dem eigenen Ego, wenn man plötzlich feststellt, dass man gar nicht so tough ist, wie man immer dachte, und kürzertreten muss?

A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special...

In late 1936, as Franco’s armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain “the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind.” As a German emigrant to Winnipeg, Hans Ibing recognized the importance of the Spanish Civil War to the struggle against worldwide fascism in a way that most people in Canada did not - joining the International Brigades in their fight to defend the Spanish Republic was his “chance to fight Hitler.”

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher - an ambitious goal, given her family’s modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but 15 years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington, DC, to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws?

Former Republican governor and congressman Mark Sanford shares his brutally honest and hard-hitting political memoir. Sanford first tells the story of his two very different falls and how the hard lessons he learned from the first led him to inevitably choosing the second by maintaining his integrity and opposing Trump. In Two Roads Diverged, Sanford analyzes the immense harm he believes Trump's presidency of lies, cronyism, shady dealings, and bullying caused to our country, and especially to the Republican party.