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Samuel Pepys
The Unequalled Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys*,* Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent...
Companero
The Life and Death of Che Guevara
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Cuando llegó el momento en que fue muerto en las selvas de Bolivia, donde su cuerpo fue exhibido como un Cristo destronado, Ernesto "Che Guevara se había convertido en sinónimo de revolución en todas partes desde Cuba hasta los terrenos universitarios de los Estados Unidos. Esta biografía...
Mandela
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.
Now Anthony Sampson, who has known...
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith
In London, Washington and Moscow
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government’s parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain’s first woman prime minister changed the course...
by Ralph Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and...
Young Che
Memories of Che Guevara by His Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
“I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different type from the one I dreamed of, and when...
The Will of the People
Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life – of his working days and nights –...
Downing Street Diary Volume Two
With James Callaghan in No. 10
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
The first volume of Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary was described by Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph as 'the best account of Harold Wlson's last days'; 'the sheer scale and detail are fascinating' wrote Peter Riddell in the Times Literary Supplement. This second volume covers the three...
Koba the Dread
Laughter and the Twenty Million
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience.
Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through...
Did Lincoln Own Slaves?
And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
In the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth, here is the one indispensable book that provides all you need to know about our most revered president in a lively and memorable question-and-answer format.You will learn whether Lincoln could dunk a basketball or tell a joke. Was he the great emancipator...
Arik
The Life of Ariel Sharon
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most important Israeli political and military leader of the last forty years.
The life of Ariel Sharon spans much of modern Israel's history: A commander in the Israeli Army from its...
The View from Alger's Window
A Son's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The View from Alger's Window is Tony Hiss's remarkable memoir of the trial and imprisonment of one of the most famous victims of the Cold War witch-hunts: his father. Tony Hiss was seven years old when Whittaker Chambers first accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets to the Russians. For the rest of...
by C. G. Jung
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings.
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story*. Memories, Dreams, Reflections*...
On the Move
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused...