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As anchor for the BBC's key political news programme, Newsnight, Emily Maitlis has interviewed some of the most powerful and controversial figures on the political scene. She plans each interview meticulously, knowing what she wants to ask and where she wants it to go, but as one of the most experienced journalists in her field she knows that no interview will ever go to plan....

In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, her political views, and her role in the campaigns of 2000 and 2004.

The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century - a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune, a great humanitarian, a president elected in a landslide and then routed in the next election, arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism - Herbert Hoover is also one of our least understood presidents.

In Mr. Trump’s campaign against what he calls “Fake News”, CNN Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, is public enemy number one. From the moment Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he has attacked the media, calling journalists “the enemy of the people”. Acosta presents a damning examination of bureaucratic dysfunction, deception, and the unprecedented threat the rhetoric Mr. Trump is directing has on our democracy. When the leader of the free world incites hate and violence, Acosta doesn’t back down, and he urges his fellow citizens to do the same.

Piedad Córdoba es sin lugar a dudas la mujer más controversial de la política colombiana en la última década. Juan Luis Castro Córdoba, su hijo mayor, es médico graduado de la U.P.B con especialización en psiquiatría de la Universidad Monte Sinaí en Nueva York. Especializado Psiquiatría Infantil de la Universidad de Yale y una maestría en Salud Pública de Chapel Hill Carolina del Norte. Durante varios años estuvo fuera del país dedicado a la investigación y la enseñanza en la Universidad de Arkansas.

The life story of VP from KGB agent to spy to President of Russia...warts and all.

An upcoming memoir from Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski in which she shares how her passion for the state and its people have helped shape her political journey.

Carlos "Calica" Ferrer relata por primera vez el viaje que compartió con su amigo Ernesto Guevara en 1953, en los meses previos a su transformación en el revolucionario Che. En este recorrido por Bolivia, Perú y Ecuador, alternan el entusiasmo viajero y las diversiones juveniles con reveladores descubrimientos sobre la realidad social y política latinoamericana.

Aunque de origen alemán, tuvo una excelente formación a "la francesa". Asumió el cargo de emperatriz como sucesora de su marido Pedro III, que murió en un complot en 1762 (año que Catalina tomó el poder). Por su estrategia de política interior y exterior intentó una europeización del país, y otorgó a la nobleza un puesto relevante que hasta ese momento no habían tenido. Interiormente fracasó su intento de crear un código con las ideas de Montesquieu y vivió una contienda en 1773 con los campesinos, por la nefasta situación social que la población vivía.

Child of the Great Depression, teenage "Duchess of Palms" beauty queen, wife of an acclaimed novelist and later of a brilliant U.S. congressman, and ultimately a successful single working woman and mother, Nadine Eckhardt has lived a fascinating life. In this unique, funny, and honest memoir, she recounts her journey from being a "fifties girl" who lived through the men in her life to becoming a woman in her own right, working toward her own goals.

More than at any time in American history, except perhaps Abe Lincoln's own, we need his help. And not just to inspire us. Over sixty-thousand books have been written about him, and most give us the heroic Lincoln. What we need now is a book that gives us the practical Lincoln. This is that book. It shows us how to survive our dangerously fractious age, one that is too often unmoored from truth, ignorant of facts, and unwilling to do the hard work of becoming better.

Sin dudas se trata del más importante político británico del siglo XX, conocido principalmente por el valor transmitido en su mandato como primer ministro durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nació el 30 de noviembre de 1874 y murió el 24 de enero de 1965. Fue Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1953. Aficionado a la pintura, cronista, historiador, novelista, gestor de los aliados para derrotar al nazismo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre otras muchas facetas, hacen de la vida de este líder político por excelencia un inconfundible anecdotario.

Las cosas pueden ser diferentes. Se pueden cambiar, siempre que exista la voluntad, también individual, de hacerlo. Se pueden hacer grandes cambios pero podemos empezar también por cambiar pequeñas cosas. Los cambios uno a uno significan poco, pero la acumulación de muchos pequeños cambios puede hacer que el mundo sea diferente. Eso nos dice la jueza Manuela Carmena, que en este libro nos ofrece ejemplos de lo que ha sido, a lo largo de su vida, su lucha contra la injusticia, la corrupción y la burocracia.

Cuando, en 1770, la archiduquesa María Antonieta de Habsburgo-Lorena, hija de la emperatriz María Teresa de Austria, deja Viena para unirse al futuro Luis XVI, es una de las princesas más afortunadas de Europa. Pero su innata gentileza se revela un arma de doble filo en la moralmente relajada corte que la recibe: la astucia de algunos nobles en Versalles nada tiene que envidiar a la de las cortesanas que van minando los cimientos de la centenaria monarquía francesa.

Hablaremos de Carmen de Mairena. Una vida trepidante por detrás y por delante, una audio serie escrita por Santi Villas y narrada por Bob Pop que recorre la vida de la artista y su entorno, con Valeria Vegas, periodista, escritora, documentalista y colaboradora de prensa, radio y televisión. Pero también sobre memoria, visibilidad, colectivo LGBTI y mucho más.

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.

For more than forty years, Diana, Princess of Wales, has been mythologized to the most extraordinary degree. Adored and lionized by some, ridiculed and traduced by others, Diana has always commanded a cultural presence unmatched by any other member of the royal family. In Dianaworld, Edward White offers both a portrait of the princess and a group portrait of those who existed in her orbit—from her royal in-laws, her servants, and the dilapidated ranks of the British aristocracy from which she rose, to drag performers, artists, Britain’s ethnic minorities, and the Gen Z superfans.

In Elon Musk: The Maverick Who Saved Free Speech, dive into the extraordinary life and career of one of the most polarizing figures of the 21st century. From revolutionizing electric cars with Tesla to reigniting humanity's quest for space through SpaceX, Elon Musk has repeatedly pushed the boundaries of innovation. But when Musk purchased Twitter, renamed it X, and boldly championed free speech, he stepped into a global controversy that shook the digital landscape to its core.

The autobiographical journey of Dnyaneshwar Mulay. The voyage begins from a small village on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border and extends beyond the corridors of power in Delhi and high tables of diplomacy overseas. The narrative goes beyond what an individual goes through in life. In a subtle way, it traces the journey of socio-eco-political changes that have occurred in independent India.

Istanbul, 1537. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at his personal apogee and the pinnacle of world power. With both Christianity and Islam riven by schism, he is mighty enough to maul different enemies in different hemispheres at the same time. But a terrible crisis is building that will rip Suleyman’s family apart as his beloved wife Hurrem wages pitiless war against his first-born son, Mustafa, and the boy’s mother Mahidevran.