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سيرة تاريخية ملهمة توثق أعظم حركات التحرر، حيث تتقاطع تضحيات القيادة السياسية مع معارك الكفاح ضد القمع والفصل العنصري. تضعك هذه التجربة الصوتية في قلب التحولات...

В этом мастерском повествовании о смерти «отца народов» тесно переплетены обстоятельства частной жизни и высокой политики. К моменту своей кончины в марте 1953 г. Иосиф Сталин уже более двадцати лет был единоличным властителем Советского Союза. За это время была осуществлена безжалостная кампания экономической модернизации начала 1930-х гг., а потом инициирован и завершен Большой террор; страна прошла путь от катастрофических первых месяцев Великой Отечественной войны к безоговорочной победе в ней.

アパルトヘイトという過酷な分断社会の闇に抗い、非暴力から武装闘争、そして奇跡的な和解へと歩みを残した一人の人間の深い葛藤を描き出す、心を揺さぶる歴史伝記です。通勤の電車内や静かな夜の思索のひとときに...

Dalla prigionia alla libertà: una biografia storica che svela la lotta all'apartheid e la vera leadership. Ideale per chi cerca profonda ispirazione durante gli spostamenti quotidiani, questo racconto offre uno sguardo realista sulle tensioni di una società segregata. Segui il percorso di un...

Né en 1889, António de Oliveira Salazar a dirigé le Portugal d'une main de fer pendant quarante ans. Professeur d'université à Coimbra, spécialiste de finances publiques, chantre de l'austérité, il accède au pouvoir en 1928 en tant que ministre des Finances, avant d'être adoubé par les militaires comme président du Conseil en 1932. Son régime lui survit jusqu'à la révolution des œillets, il y a cinquante ans, en avril 1974.

Explore the life and legacy of James Madison, America’s fourth president and a central architect of the U.S. Constitution. This concise biography follows his early life, political career, presidency, leadership during the War of 1812, and lasting influence on the United States...

Diese historische Biografie analysiert den verheerenden Weg einer krisenhaften Demokratie in die absolute Diktatur. Perfekt für das fokussierte Hören auf dem täglichen Pendelweg liefert dieses Sachbuch tiefe Einblicke in die Mechanismen politischer Macht. Erlebe hautnah, wie zielgerichtete...

Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest, and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life. Equal parts scholar and terrorist, a mastermind of bank robberies...

After his victory in 1939, General Francisco Franco ruled Spain with an iron fist for 36 years. Franco’s rapid yet unlikely rise to power in Spain came to define a country for several generations. Franco was influenced by the wider trends and forces of the 20th century, yet he would indelibly make his mark on Spain in his own right, and in the process become one of the most widely derided figures in contemporary history.

New York Times best-selling author and legendary political insider Roger Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment that exposes the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In his usual "go for the jugular" style, Stone collaborates with Saint John Hunt - author, musician, and son of legendary CIA operative E. Howard Hunt - to make this a "no-holds-barred" history of the Bush family.

In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency. Theirs was the most captivating...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is credited with driving through the deal between the apartheid government and the African National Congress that was at the heart of South Africa’s democratic constitution. He was the ANC’s lead negotiator and the man who persuaded one of the most recalcitrant racist governments in the world to buy into a settlement based on one of its most enlightened bills of rights. But once the ink had dried on the constitution, Ramaphosa found himself politically sidelined.

One of America’s most influential presidents was a man who could not walk. The polio that struck Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he was a future political star did not diminish him. Instead, against all expectations, it was the agent that forged his destiny.

From George Washington's reluctant oath-taking through George W. Bush's leadership challenges after September 11, 2001, we view ambitious and fallible men through the new lens of the 21st century. Where did they succeed? Where did they fail? And what do we know now that we could not have known at the time?

"A great public service--critical for our time." --Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump The New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch shows that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally unfit to execute...

Toute ma vie j'ai eu de la chance, beaucoup de chance, peut-être même trop de chance quand je pense à tous ceux qui n'ont d'autre choix que d'affronter la grisaille d'un quotidien désespérant et, souvent, douloureux. Ce n'est pas que les épreuves m'ont été épargnées. J'ai eu mon lot d'échecs professionnels et personnels. J'ai même l'impression d'avoir parfois dû payer un prix élevé au succès, et à la notoriété. Mais jamais, au grand jamais, je n'ai connu l'ennui.

In this engaging life of the 20th century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin's tumultuous life and politics.

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time...

After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here is finally a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. In Inside Trump's White House, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history of President Donald J. Trump's first years in...

Originally published in 1883 as part of the historian’s larger work Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV: Imperial Antiquity, this book covers the life, the times, and the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius (121-180). The 17th emperor of Rome preserved and protected the Empire, mainly by keeping the Parthians in the East and the Northern barbarians at bay. More sage than soldier, he ruled wisely and set a noble example in a wicked age.