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  • The Showman

  • The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
  • By: Simon Shuster
  • Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
  • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Showman

By: Simon Shuster
Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
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Publisher's Summary

TIMES: A BEST BOOK OF 2024 – NEXT YEAR’S TOP READS

GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024

INDEPENDENT: A BOOK OF THE MONTH

WATERSTONES: JANUARY’S BEST BOOKS

WRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS, THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM.

Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world’s democracies behind his cause.

Clear-eyed about the President’s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero.

The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal.

©2024 Simon Shuster (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic Reviews

‘An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era. This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Twilight of Democracy

‘Intimate but unflinchingly objective, this biography gives you a seat at Zelensky's war cabinet and penetrates his mind as he battles to save Ukraine's freedom—and ours’ Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

‘The most intimate portrait of Zelensky, the man at the center of the world drama, painted by one of the best writers in the field, Simon Shuster. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand what Ukrainians are fighting for and why they will prevail’ Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War

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