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Dans le second volume de ses Mémoires, Jacques Chirac aborde avec une grande liberté de ton les deux mandats de sa présidence, la plus longue de la Ve République après celle de François Mitterrand. ……続きを見る

Apa Pant comes of a former ruling family in India, the Pratinidhis of Aundh, who played their part in the stirring history of the Maratha struggle for the failing power of the Moghul Empire. In his ……続きを見る

This is an autobiography of a first generation Indian South African, Goonam, who defied all odds and society norms to go to Edinburg to study medicine. Dr Goonam returned to South Africa in 1936 and……続きを見る

Portrait du héraut d'une société où le mensonge avéré vaut autant que la vérité, où le simplisme des idées - pourvu qu'elles soient flamboyantes - l'emporte sur l'intelligence des faits, où les conn……続きを見る

Dans le combat politique, les femmes n'ont plus rien à envier aux hommes. Elles arrivent ! Les femmes sont encore minoritaires dans le paysage politique français. Mais les voici partout en première ……続きを見る

The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of t……続きを見る

"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." ーJill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fac……続きを見る

This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture o……続きを見る

The new edition of this extremely well-received political biography of Vladimir Putin builds on the strengths of the first edition to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his po……続きを見る

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 is the first volume in William Manchester's epic three volume The Last Lion - the best-selling and definitive biography of one o……続きを見る

"Masterful . . . The collaboration completes the Churchill portrait in a seamless manner, combining the detailed research, sharp analysis and sparkling prose that readers of the first two volumes ha……続きを見る

One of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam experience, The Living and the Dead presents a brilliant study of Robert McNamara, his decision-making during the war, and the way his decisions af……続きを見る

The crucial importance of Karl Marx’s thought for his own time and for ours is beyond dispute, but the there have always been two considerable impediments to understanding: first, the supposed compl……続きを見る

Vladimir Poetin, die in maart 2012 voor de derde keer tot president van Rusland werd verkozen, is veruit de meest invloedrijke en mysterieuze politicus ter wereld. Hoewel hij al lange tijd wereldwij……続きを見る

Empire of Corruption is Vladimir Soloviev’s attempt to share his opinions on Russia’s ways of dealing with corruption. With a certain irony, Soloviev calls the issue ‘the Russian national pastime’, ……続きを見る

Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and ……続きを見る

First published in 1984, this is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than ten years, although there had been four in the preceding decade. This is strange, for Baldwin has recently begun……続きを見る

From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. ……続きを見る

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to get from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties a……続きを見る

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874. No one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston's undistinguished academic career to his front-line experien……続きを見る

Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing ……続きを見る

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundam……続きを見る

Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing es……続きを見る

In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, po……続きを見る

Biographical profile of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most interesting, paradoxical, and brilliant members of our Founding Fathers. Professor Carl Rubine of Columbia University called him "the firs……続きを見る

Revealing previously unreleased information from the Rod Blagojevich investigation, this narrativeーwritten by two Chicago Tribune reporters who spent years sifting through evidence, compiling docum……続きを見る

Caro Lettore, la presente è non solo una biografia del Presidente Mattarella ma è anche e soprattutto un documento indipendente e politicamente scorretto di analisi della politica italiana, in parti……続きを見る

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An abolitionist and a champion of free love and women’s rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886), American reformer,……続きを見る

"The finest historian of the American Revolution." Douglas Brinkley. For all his fame and familiarity, George Washington remains something of an enigma - the stiff portrait on the dollar bill. But h……続きを見る