Títulos en Presidentes y jefes de estado

"Emmanuel Macron og Frankrig" er et portræt af Frankrigs præsident, der i 2017 blev valgt som den yngste leder af landet siden Napoléon. Han har karisma, vid og store ambitioner, men franskmændende er ikke enige om, hvordan de skal dømme ham. Med en nyskrevet epilog, som beskriver de begivenheder, der har fundet sted de seneste år med store demonstrationer i Frankrig og coronakrise.

Stalin, stålmanden, eller blandt venner bare Koba, pseudonym for Iosif Dzjugasjvili, 1879-1953, var en af det tyvende århundredes helt store slagtere. I denne bog, Stalin. En biografi, opsummerer professor Bent Jensen et livs forskning i Stalin og stalinismen. Hovedtesen i bogen er den enkle, at Stalins psykologi skabte det stalinistiske system. Hans paranoide vrangforestillinger omskabte Rusland til et rædselsregime, der systematisk udryddede alle reelle, tænkte og potentielle fjender af regimet.

Die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der zum mächtigsten Mann der Welt wurde: In diesen großartig erzählten, unsentimentalen Erinnerungen sucht der Sohn eines schwarzen afrikanischen Vaters und einer weißen amerikanischen Mutter nach der Bedeutung seines Lebens als farbiger Amerikaner. Es beginnt in New York, als Barack Obama erfährt, dass sein Vater - für ihn mehr ein Mythos als ein Mensch - bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kam. Dieser plötzliche Tod löst eine Odyssee der Gefühle aus.

Barack Obama hat als erster Afroamerikaner beste Chancen auf den Einzug ins Weiße Haus. Doch was steckt hinter diesem Mann mit dem Charisma eines Martin Luther King? Christian Blees zeichnet im Gespräch mit dem Obama-Experten Christoph von Marschall das Bild des Sohnes kenianisch-amerikanischer Eltern, der nach seinem Harvard-Abschluß Sozialarbeiter wurde und heute als Hoffnung eines ganzen Landes gilt ...

Le destin historique d'un grand homme se dessine-t-il dès l'enfance ? Sabine Melchior-Bonnet montre dans ce livre audio que derrière tout héros, qu'il soit grandiose ou maudit, il y a... une mère. C'est dans les relations entre mère et fils que se joue aussi l'Histoire. Que seraient en effet Néron, François Ier, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Napoléon, mais aussi Churchill, Staline, Hitler, sans leur mère ? C'est à la restitution de ces biographies historiques sous l'angle inédit des relations entre mère et fils que s'attache ici l'auteur.

On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the US Marines barracks in Beirut. Two hundred and forty-one Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We're still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In the Marines tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how President Ronald Reagan used another misguided military venture to distract America from the attack and his many mistakes leading up to it.

The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How could a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate appeal to millions of Americans, enough so that he was able to win the highest office in the land? With this book, journalist Amanda Marcotte will outline how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Biography of the Year, 2005.

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.

The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as #1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a...

A groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world’s most famous peacemakers. As the tide of the Civil War...

The Education of John Adams is the first biography of John Adams by a biographer with legal training. It examines his origins in colonial Massachusetts, his education, and his struggle to choose a career and define a place for himself in colonial society. 

President Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Declaration of Independence, but he also was an anthropologist, an architect, an astronomer, a botanist, a diplomat, a farmer, an inventor, a lawyer, a mathematician, and a musician. He spoke French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. He founded the University of Virginia and today's Democratic Party. During his eight years in office, he doubled the country's size.

In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, led the only party that bridged North and South. But the Democrats would split over the issue of slavery, leading Southerners in the party to run their own presidential slate. This opened the door for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse Abraham Lincoln, not the first choice even of his own party, won the presidency with a record-low 39.8 percent of the popular vote.

Chuck Todd's gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obama's tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon...

Jacqueline Bouvier. Ethel Skakel. Joan Bennett. Three women who married into America's royal family and became forever linked in legend. Set against the panorama of explosive American history, this unique story offers a rarely-seen look at the relationship shared among the three women -- during...

A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy...

Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president Washington's legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign...

In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents. Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them: Abraham Lincoln and...

The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known. To the rest of the world, Nelson Mandela was a giant...

A prize-winning historian’s major new history of the Second World War, arguing that Stalin’s USSR was the war’s driving force. “A provocative revisionist take on the Second World War … McMeekin is a formidable researcher.” —Financial Times We remember World War II as a struggle...