Biography: historical, political and military

A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings family explores Americas racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestorsboth the enslaver and the enslaved.

Desafiando las expectativas, estadísticas y estereotipos, Alberto Gonzales se ha convertido en uno de los hombres más poderosos de América.

John Jenkins, Maines first Black state senator and mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn, led a remarkable life and his influence extended far beyond his politics and his constituents.

Die Lebenserinnerungen von Marko Max Feingold sind geprägt von Gegensätzen und zeigen Wendungen und Brüche in einem von Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust bestimmten Leben.

Paul Schmidt war als Dolmetscher der Außenminister von Stresemann bis Ribbentrop, später auch von Hitler Zeuge der wichtigsten und weitreichendsten Stationen deutscher Außenpolitik im 20 Jahrhundert.

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography *';We see through this book the immense power of languageto change the minds of lawmakers and tourists alike.

Thilo Schulz erzählt die ungewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte eines Außenseiters, der versuchte, einen Modus Vivendi mit dem NS-Regime zu finden, und daran scheiterte.

Das kleine Dorf Riace in Kalabrien und ihr Bürgermeister Mimmo Lucano (2004–2018) wurden während der humanitären Krise von Lampedusa im Jahr 2009 international bekannt, weil sie 200 Flüchtlingen und Asylbewerbern Unterkunft und Gastfreundschaft gewährten – im Gegensatz zu Mailand, das gerade mal 20 Plätze zur Verfügung stellte.

En este libro el autor presenta sus vivencias en primera persona, desde sus inicios en Ucrania hasta llegar e instalarse en Argentina, en búsqueda de una vida mejor.

Jean Meyer afirma que "la verdad a que aspira la «ciencia histórica» es siempre fragmentaria", que "el discurso del historiador nunca deja de ser un relato" y que los escritores de historias imaginadas "reconocen plenamente la irrupción de la historia en la construcción de sus ficciones".

El libro Michelle Bachelet, una mujer política, de la Editorial Usach, ahonda en el legado político de una de las figuras clave desde el retorno a la democracia.

En la historia del quehacer político nacional, Gladys Marín es una de las figuras más prominentes debido a su activa presencia, que cubre más de cuatro décadas de lucha y consecuencia a toda prueba.

Conocido por su oratoria, el Presidente Salvador Allende realizó innumerables intervenciones a lo largo de su vida.

En plena marcha victoriosa de su regimiento de infantería por territorio de Francia, en 1944, el soldado Leroy Stewart no pensaba en la gloria ni en la muerte.

ARRIBISTA: Del francés "arriviste/arriver", que durante siglos significó "arribar", "llegar".

Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milkens lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.

Die bewegte Lebensgeschichte eines Heimatlosen zwischen Krieg, Kunst, Wissenschaft und Weltumseglung Als Flüchtling kam Adelbert von Chamisso in den Wirren der französischen Revolution nach Deutschland.

One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 ';One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.

Anhand der Biografie von Nicolaas Rost schreibt Markus Wegewitz eine Erfahrungsgeschichte des Antifaschismus im Europa des 20.

"Entre 1960 y 2019 el Ecuador ha sufrido una profunda transformación en la política, la economía y la sociedad.

Los gobiernos del giro a la izquierda en América Latina, y en especial los del Socialismo del siglo XXI, atravesaron a nuestros países con la fuerza de un huracán.

Entre las ofertas de campaña electoral para conquistar la presidencia por parte de Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa y Evo Morales se encontraban las ideas fuerza de "la democratización de la comunicación" y "la comunicación como un derecho".

"El análisis de la psicología comunitaria parte de fundamentos críticos de la investigación acción-participativa como modelo de intervención que conjuga a la teoría con la práctica para la transformación social.

"La lectura de este libro nos permite sobrepasar la conversación prototípica acerca de los millennials, porque nos corremos de los lugares comunes, así como de la mistificación de un conjunto de características y defectos que se les atribuye a quienes forman parte de este segmento mundial de la población, que nació a fines del siglo pasado e inicio de este.

'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to reusable spacecraft near the end.

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

Kurt Aram (1869-1934) war ein deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller.

One of Argentinas 30,000 disappeared, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed.

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman EmpireMachiavelli praised his military genius.

The definitive biography of the legendary "e;first citizen of Athens"e;Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world.

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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk's life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breakingThe Conservative Mind.

Westlake Girl: My Oregon Frontier Childhood is the true story of a spirited girl coming of age in an isolated village on the Oregon coast from 1928 to 1936.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is most famous for his role as the first Commissioner ever to rule organized baseball.

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B.

Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when Japan and Europe, fully recovered from wartime devastation, threatened America's position as the number one economy in the world.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;UP FROM SLAVERY (An Autobiography)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

';To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that's not hard,' Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine.

This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State's most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman, who fought as bravely as a man among the Rangers and was buried with full military honors.

This book details Lee's life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South's surrender at Appomattox.

You've heard Doc Holliday's history, but do you know his story?

Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared.

Glacier National Park was established on May 11, 1910, to preserve and protect the region's natural and cultural resources for future generations.

The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty.

'I loved every word' Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Ch teau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.