Politics & Activism

Here is Trump in action—how he runs his organization and how he runs his life....

Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt poetry, Garside invites listeners to see beyond the stereotypes, offering a nuanced exploration of identity, resilience, and showing how to be comfortable in your own skin.

In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.

Funny, provocative and unswervingly perceptive, An Immigrant's Love letter to the West interrogates the developing sense of self-loathing the Western sphere has adopted and offers an alternative perspective....

A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

Jimmy Carter, 39th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life....

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson continues - one of the richest, most intensive, and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President....

Candid and compelling, A Bigger Picture is the definitive narrative of Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership....

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics....

Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story....

This acclaimed best seller from popular historian Alison Weir is a fascinating look at the Tudor family dynasty and its most infamous ruler....

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis....

Written between 1717 and 1790, and originally referred to by its author as simply Memoirs, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is considered the pioneering example of the genre....

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. In her moving memoir, she reveals what happens in the aftermath....

Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred...

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation.

Bruised but not beaten, Graham Linehan explains why he chose the hill of women and girls' rights to die on—and why, despite the hardship of cancellation, he's not coming down from it any time soon....

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history....

In the best-selling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography....

I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation....

He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth....

A fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth....

In his teens, Jim Carroll roamed the streets of New York, shooting baskets with some of New York's best?

In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and with little power. In these years, Chartwell, his country home in Kent, became the headquarters of his campaign against Nazi Germany. He invited trusted advisors and informants, including Albert Einstein and T. E. Lawrence, who could strengthen his hand as he worked tirelessly to sound the alarm at the prospect of war.

As Ireland's Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy took on one of the toughest briefs in government, one that continues to be a challenge today. Looking back at his life in the build-up to parliamentary office and at his time in the cabinet, Eoghan brings a self-lacerating and deeply personal view of the life of a modern politician trying - and often failing - to make the positive change he hoped to deliver. Brutal and sometimes harrowing, Eoghan's tale is also surprisingly funny, though the humour is only ever at the author's expense.

From a vivid portrait of her childhood in 1960s Detroit to her leadership of one of the world’s largest philanthropic institutions, La June shares her full-circle, American story—a coming-of-age journey where she gains a firsthand understanding of how systemic racism prevents our children and communities from thriving and learns about the transformative role healing can play in helping all of us transcend the legacy of racial inequity.

Casa de Médici: Una guía fascinante de la historia de la familia y la dinastía de los Médici. Casa de Borja: Una fascinante guía sobre los Borja y sus enemistades con la familia Médicis, la dinastía Sforza y Girolamo Savonarola.

Perle Mesta was a force to be reckoned with. In her heyday, this wealthy globe-trotting Washington widow was one of the most famous women in America, garnering as much media attention as Eleanor Roosevelt. Renowned for her world-class parties featuring politicians and celebrities, she was very close to three presidents–Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. Truman named her as the first female envoy to Luxembourg, which inspired the hit musical based on Perle’s life – “Call Me Madam” – which starred Ethel Merman, ran on Broadway for two years and later became a movie.

This new biography of Van Buren—the first full-scale portrait in four decades—charts his ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement. Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures (Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, James K. Polk), James Bradley's book depicts the struggle for power in the tumultuous decades leading up to the Civil War.

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) a marqué son époque comme peu d’hommes. Général cinq étoiles, homme du Jour J, chef de guerre, président des États-Unis, il a été l’un des acteurs majeurs de l’histoire américaine mais aussi internationale, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au début des années 1960. En 1945, à la tête d’une coalition sans précédent, il a réussi cinq débarquements – en Afrique du Nord, en Sicile, en Italie, en Normandie et en Provence – qui lui ont permis de libérer la France et l’Europe occidentale et d’obtenir la reddition de l’Allemagne nazie.

Was mögen die großen Königinnen und Könige dieser Welt wohl gedacht haben? Wie gingen sie mit der Freiheit, die sie in eine für uns kaum vorstellbare Gefangenschaft trieb, um - und was machte das Leben, dass sie führten mit ihnen? Diese Novelle unternimmt den Versuch in die Gedanken der wohl bekanntesten Tudor-Königinnen einzutauchen und lässt die Leserinnen und Leser in das einzig freie Gut Elisabeths blicken. Begonnen beim Tod ihrer Mutter, bis zu ihrem Tod selbst erleben wir Elisabeth einmal vollkommen anders.

Studienrat Alfred Hauschild war ein außergewöhnliche Mensch, der in kein Raster paßte. Dieses Buch wurde in seinem Nachlass gefunden und handelt von seiner Jugend zur Zeit des Mauerbaus, von seinem Leben im Ostteil Berlins unter der Führung der SED, schließlich aber auch von seiner vermeintlichen Republikflucht, der darauf folgenden Inhaftierung und der von westlicher Seite erkauften Freiheit im Westteil der Hauptstadt. Hauschilds Leben in der DDR war geprägt von dem Drang, sich nicht vom System unter der Herrschaft der SED vereinnahmen zu lassen und seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen.

Curious about how a young princess navigated her path to become a global symbol of strength and stability? Eager to delve into the illustrious reign of one of the world's most iconic monarchs? Ready to explore the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II? A Brief History of Queen Elizabeth II unravels the captivating story of the longest-reigning British monarch. This book isn't just a chronicle of a royal life; it's a journey through the evolution of the monarchy in a world of rapid change.