CK - Political 16

Is Hillary Clinton a true leader or just another corrupted politician? Is she going to be a great President of the United State, or this is another politician "all talk, no action?" What you'll lear……続きを見る

Die Quandts zählen zu den mächtigsten Unternehmerdynastien Deutschlands. Doch ihr Aufstieg ist umstritten. Wie eng war die Familie in die nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen verstrickt? Beruht ihr he……続きを見る

Kaiser Karl V. hat ihn als Retter des Reiches gepriesen – Georg Truchsess Freiherr zu Waldburg. Als Oberster Feldhauptmann eines Fürstenheeres hat er den größten Aufstand niedergeworfen, den Europa ……続きを見る

Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American ex……続きを見る

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends an……続きを見る

Who is Bill Clinton? A man whose presidency was disgraced by impeachment -- yet who remains one of the most popular presidents of our time. A man whose autobiography, My Life, was panned by critics ……続きを見る

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical inv……続きを見る

Helmut Kohl war mit seinen politischen Rivalen gelegentlich privat unterwegs, so mit Franz Josef Strauß auf einer Tour durch die bayerischen Berge. Die beiden wurden von einem Gebirgsregen überrasch……続きを見る

Die Jäger: eine Eliteeinheit, tödlich wie die Navy SEALs, eingesetzt in den gefährlichsten Kriegsregionen im Kampf gegen den Terror. Thomas Rathsack ist Jäger 229. Nach den Anschlägen vom 11. Septem……続きを見る

Nasty, Brutish, and Short is a collection of irreverent essays about life overseas. The author no longer has to hold his tongue about his experiencesーwhich means it’s payback time. He now speaks hi……続きを見る

Dennis DeConcini, a contemporary of Arizona greats like Sandra Day O’Connor, Barry Goldwater, and Rose Mofford, is an Arizona icon in his own right. Starting his public career as the Pima County Att……続きを見る

Written by Andrew Jack, the Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, here is a revealing look at the meteoric rise of Vladimir Putin and his first term as president of Russia. Drawing on intervie……続きを見る

Earl Kemp Long (1895–1960) was the political heir to his brother Huey in Louisiana politics. A country boy who never lost his common touch, he ran for office in every state election between 1933 and……続きを見る

Jack M. Campbell (1916–1999) was elected governor of New Mexico in 1962 and reelected in 1964, the first New Mexico governor in twelve years to win a second term. In this engaging autobiography, Cam……続きを見る

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family we……続きを見る

Une enquête implacable. Pour les Français qui ne la connaissent qu'à travers les médias, Ségolène Royal est une politicienne affichant un sourire éclatant et enjôleur faisant montre, parfois, d'un h……続きを見る

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books th……続きを見る

This book is dedicated to all victims of terrorism in the world, their families and their loved ones, with the hope and prayer that with understanding and compassion, we can change the terrorism in ……続きを見る

In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This……続きを見る

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In the welter of popular and well-known stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and fig……続きを見る

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to……続きを見る

Alexander Hamilton was the architect of the US Constitution. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States a little more than two centuries ago. Hamilton was one of the public figures, alo……続きを見る

Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular intervi……続きを見る

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley held a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In the receiving line, holding a gun concealed by a handkerchief, was Le……続きを見る

Anton Mostert was one of South Africa's youngest judges when he was appointed to head a commission of inquiry into exchange control regulations in 1978. His inquiry, seemingly innocuous, unearthed w……続きを見る

Seinen ersten richtigen Klettersturz hat Reinhold Messner nicht auf einem Achttausender, sondern im Alter von 50 Jahren, als er nach einem Restaurantbesuch zu seiner Burg Juval zurückkehrt und vor v……続きを見る

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books th……続きを見る

If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Lef……続きを見る

Long before George Washington was a president or general, he was a sportsman. Born in 1732, he had a physique and aspirations that were tailor made for his age, one in which displays of physical pro……続きを見る