In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest -- both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public -- to...
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWidely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century by the nation's leading Cold War historian. In the late 1940s, George F. Kennan?then a bright...
Team of Rivals is a brilliant, multi-million selling biography, now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership'Barack Obama'The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational'Jon Snow...
How do we explain Park Chung-Hee¡¯s determination to push through the coup d¡¯etat in 1961 and the modernization programs afterward? How did his family¡¯s poverty and his experiences in Manchuria, Japan, and China affect his later career as South Korea¡¯s leader? How would he have answered his criti...
It was through bitter experience growing up on the harsh and unforgiving steppes of Mongolia that Genghis Khan learned to trust few people and to be vigilant of the personalities and events around him. As a result of an early life filled with hardship, betrayals, and constant struggle, Genghis Khan ...
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audienc...
In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis)...
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[¿Ü¼] The Future : Six Drivers of Global Change (Paperback)
In "The Future", former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conv...
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[Á÷¼öÀÔ¾ç¼] Mao : The Unknown Story(Paperback, REPRINT)
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao¡¯s close circle in China who have never talked before ? and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him.
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[Á÷¼öÀÔ¾ç¼] The Patriarch : The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy(Hardcover)
In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw?the only biographer granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the John F. Kenne...
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever...
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[Á÷¼öÀÔ¾ç¼] The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill : Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (Hardcover)
Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightni...
The First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a would-be tyrant. Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator. All these are Abraham Lincoln?in his time America¡¯s most admired and reviled leader, and stil...
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[¿Ü¼] Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln(Paperback, Film Tie-In Edition)
Team of Rivals is a brilliant, multi-million selling biography, now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership'Barack Obama'The most uplifting book that I have read in the last two decades. Sensational'Jon Snow...