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The military general who became Emperor Hirohito’s prime minister, Tojo Hideki is most often remembered as an iron-fisted leader who dragged Japan into World War II and—after spectacular losses—was eventually executed as a war criminal. Yet Tojo was far more than his ignominious end. In...

Accidental First Lady shares Kerry Kriseman's 22-year journey as the political spouse and first lady of St. Petersburg, Florida, the state's 5th largest city. This memoir offers an insider's perspective on the evolution of local politics, revealing the resilience, faith, and tenacity required to navigate the public and private challenges of a political life.

In 1909, a thin, pale young man stood on a street corner in Vienna selling painted postcards to tourists. He couldn't hold down a job. He couldn't maintain a friendship. He was sleeping in a homeless shelter and arguing with drifters about politics nobody cared about. Thirty years later, he controlled most of Europe. Sixty million people would die because of his decisions. How does that happen? This isn't another book about the war. It's not about the battles or the tanks or the maps with arrows on them. You can get that anywhere. This is an audiobook about the mind of a madman.

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 to May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the US Air Force, flying dangerous war zone supply routes overseas during World War II, who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964. The following recording is from a 1988 television interview.

Power bends to those who understand people, timing, and bold action. Julius Caesar mastered all three. Julius Caesar did not simply rise to power. He engineered it. In an age of political chaos, brutal warfare, and fragile alliances, Caesar transformed himself from an indebted aristocrat into the most powerful man in the Roman world. His story is not just about conquest, but about strategy, psychology, and the rare ability to bend events toward your will.

You think you know Winston Churchill? You've seen the statues, heard the quotes, watched the films. You know about the cigars and the brandy and the V-sign and the bulldog jaw. What you don't know is how he worked. What drove him. What broke him. And what he rebuilt himself into, again, across nine decades of failure and triumph and failure again.

Otto von Bismarck was not the kind of man who waited for history to happen. He made it happen, and he didn't much care whose feelings got hurt along the way. Bismarck was the pragmatic Prussian statesman who engineered Germany creation as a unified nation through Realpolitik—the unsentimental art of doing whatever it takes to get results. While other politicians speechified and moralized, Bismarck was already three moves ahead, turning all of Europe into his personal chessboard.

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.

Nel febbraio del 1984 un Massimo D'Alema trentacinquenne, «giovane dirigente comunista periferico», viene scelto per far parte della delegazione del PCI che parteciperà ai funerali di Jurij Andropov a Mosca. Il diario di quei giorni moscoviti, di cui D'Alema riporta stralci in queste pagine, è un tesoro di scorci e immagini: Pertini che gioca a carte sul volo di Stato, l'impatto con le complessità del cerimoniale sovietico, la solennità delle esequie alla presenza di una pletora di capi di Stato, da Fidel Castro a Margaret Thatcher a Yasser Arafat.

‘Invites us to learn from those more courageous than ourselves’ TIMOTHY SNYDER ‘Profound … feels essential in these times’ SARAH BAKEWELL ‘This book reminded me how to be brave’ RENI EDDO-LODGE An invigorating guide to fighting back – part philosophy, part history and part how-to...

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson's...

From an award-winning journalist, the authoritative—and explosive—inside story of Justice Samuel Alito and his powerful role in shaping the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel Alito, the unflinching author of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, is so influential that many now...

**Narrated by the Author!** A poignant and inspiring memoir from the former mayor of Atlanta about her modest, hardscrabble upbringing, and fully appreciating the selfless, loving, fierce, and altogether Southern-twinged lessons her family taught her. Long before Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to...

From award-winning journalist and author Isabel Vincent, a revelatory portrait of RFK Jr., tracing his astonishing journey from young socialite to environmental activist, his battles with addiction, and his rise to the Trump administration’s Secretary for Health and Human Services, based on...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more. ‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ – The Guardian ‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times ‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Kennedy’s personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years leading up to and...

You’ve seen the headlines. The rockets. The cars. The Twitter chaos. The $290 million election bet. But you haven’t seen this. Most books about Elon Musk tell you what he did. This one tells you why. And the answer is far stranger, far darker, and far more human than anything you’ve read before. It starts in a bedroom in Pretoria, South Africa, where a small boy sat reading an encyclopedia for the third time while his father’s unpredictable mood filled the house below.

In seiner Autobiographie zeichnet Gavin Newsom seinen Weg auf die große politische Bühne nach. Er berichtet von den Erlebnissen, die ihn dazu inspirierten, Politiker zu werden – und von den Werten und Idealen, die ihn als Mensch prägen. Gavin Newsom wurde in San Francisco geboren, und seine Eltern ließen sich scheiden, als er noch klein war. Seine Kindheit verbrachte er zwischen zwei Welten: Seine Mutter hatte drei Jobs, um für ihre Kinder sorgen zu können, unterdessen führte sein Vater Newsom ihn in eine Gesellschaft ein, in der Reichtum und Beziehungen bestimmend waren.

Marking a milestone for women in state government, Marlene M. Johnson became Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governor under Rudy Perpich’s gubernatorial administration in January 1983. That same year, she met her husband, Peter, and their deeply loving relationship profoundly sustained her for twenty-seven years. Rise to the Challenge weaves these personal and professional stories together in a courageous portrait of dedication and leadership.