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Una biografía imprescindible para acercar al lector del siglo XXI una de las figuras centrales de la historia española. Nadie ha condicionado tanto la historia contemporánea de España como Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975). Sin embargo y a pesar de su omnipresencia –de las monedas a...

¡Descubre las lecciones de liderazgo de Winston Churchill que pueden transformar su vida! Winston Churchill es una de las figuras más fascinantes del pasado reciente, por una amplia variedad de razones. Una de las más convincentes es cómo su vida encarna de manera tan definitiva el proceso de convertirse en un gran líder. Este audiolibro tiene como objetivo ayudar a los interesados en el tema del liderazgo a apreciar algunas de las lecciones que la vida de Churchill tiene para ofrecer.

No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential...

Born in rural China in 1893, Mao Zedong led his country through "a long-drawn-out adventure in upheaval." In the process, he became one of the monumental figures of the twentieth century. He died in 1976, just as China was entering a détente with the United States. This excellent biography...

One decision. One president. One moment that changed history. In Decisions of Consequence, Forrest Tower identifies the single most important decision made by every U.S. president and examines the consequences that shaped America. From George Washington's refusal of monarchical power to Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Franklin D. Roosevelt's entry into World War II, Richard Nixon's resignation, and Joe Biden's decision not to seek reelection, each chapter reveals the pressures, risks, and lasting impact behind history's defining presidential choices.

"Amigos, amigas, les presento el primero, referente a la grandeza cultural de México" «Pretendo reivindicar con este libro la vigencia del México profundo y sus civilizaciones originales, sometidas y negadas […] , p ues considero una ingratitud no reconocer que, debido a esas raíces y...

An eye–opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career–long party politician whose brilliant coalition–building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory. We know Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by...

In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president's fascination with Spiritualism.

''Te amo como el canto del cisne'', fueron las últimas palabras con las que mi papá, el expresidente de México, Adolfo López Mateos, se despidió por última vez de mi mamá, Angelina Gutiérrez Sadurni, la jovencita de la cual se enamoró catastróficamente, con la cual se casó por la iglesia y tuvieron dos hijos, mi hermano Adolfo y yo.

«La cercanía con Andrés Manuel implicaba también asumir riesgos, exponerse al fuego cruzado de enemigos visibles e invisibles. El poder, en México, siempre vigila, siempre castiga, y quienes se acercan demasiado a su círculo de fuego terminan marcados». JULIO SCHERER IBARRA Pocos como...

70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her...

François Mitterrand, figure emblématique de la Ve République, a marqué la France de son empreinte durable. Cette biographie, présentée par les historiens Judith Bonnin et Pierre-Emmanuel Guigo, explore les multiples facettes de cet homme complexe : son ascension politique, ses choix controversés, ses passions et ses contradictions, pour révéler l'homme derrière le président, dans une biographie riche et nuancée.

Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews—with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin—managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the utterly...

Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life.

The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt reveals how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still...

In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, after two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three-year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passion for travel and unburdened by a fixed itinerary, Grant set out to explore the world, his wanderlust sustained by modest means. Louis L. Picone’s Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire masterfully chronicles this unprecedented adventure, illuminating its historical significance and Grant’s enduring legacy.

Despite serving his country for 50 years and being among the most qualified men to hold the office of president, James Monroe is an oft-forgotten Founding Father. In this book, Brook Poston reveals how Monroe attempted to craft a legacy for himself as a champion of American republicanism.

When one is looking quickly over the lives of the Presidents of the United States, it is easy to overlook William Henry Harrison. After all, he only served as the Chief Executive for 30 days, and he spent the majority of those in bed, fighting for his life and eventually losing. However, to ignore Harrison because he served such a short time in the White House is just as foolish as ignoring Patrick Henry or Alexander Hamilton because they were never elected to the nation's highest office.

Citizens of the United States of America are very proud of their heritage; the country is known as the "land of opportunity" because of some self-made men who made a go of themselves in the country. When comparing the country to other places in the world, the United States is still a young country and was built on immigrants and disadvantaged people rising to the top and shaping the country into what it is today.