Politiska ledare & politiskt ledarskap

"I sällskap med döden" är Ingvar Carlssons personliga berättelse om hur döden ett antal gånger har påverkat honom brutalt, förändrat hans förutsättningar och på sina villkor tvingat honom vidare. Om hur det är att leva med döden vid sin sida men ä...

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Mein Kamph is the autobiography of Adolf Hitler, this autobiography gives detailed insight into the mission and vision of Hitler that shocked the world. Adolf Hitler is often held responsible for more evil and suffering then any man in the history...

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När Sovjetunionen föll samman 1991 behövde KGB-mannen Vladimir Putin en ny karriär. Han fann den i St Petersburg, där han blev borgmästarens högra hand och gav sig in i en rad lukrativa men ljusskygga affärer. När Putin sedan tog över Ryssland eft...

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Mordet på Sveriges statsminister Olof Palme den 28 februari 1986 skakade nationen och världen. Vår internationellt mest kände politiker avrättades med ett skott i ryggen på öppen gata mitt i Stockholm. Attentatsmannen flydde in i en gränd utan att...

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In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making...

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Donald Trump valdes till president 2016 på goda grunder. Det är svårt att begripa om man bara följer amerikansk politik genom etablerad svensk media. Men Amerikanska Nyhetsanalysers redaktör Ronie Berggren, ger i denna bok den historiska bakgrunde...

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Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, politiskt obunden statsminister under världskrigsåren 1914-1917, är en av de stora gestalterna i svenskt samhällsliv under 1900-talets första hälft. Han växte upp under små omständigheter i skuggan av ett stolt släktarv. Vid ...

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Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw''s Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw''s two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis , was greeted with universal acclaim a...

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Donald Trump var tidigt en mytomspunnen man. Många av historierna fabricerades och spreds av Trump själv, som då var en publicitetshungrig imperiebyggare i fastighets- och hotellbranschen. Och när han sedan klev in i politiken och blev USA:s presi...

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En gripande, djupt personlig redogörelse om ögonblicken när historia skrivs - av presidenten som inspirerade oss till att tro på demokratins kraft. I den fascinerande och efterlängtade första volymen av sina memoarer berättar Barack Obama historie...

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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ''revelatory'' terms, as peeling back the multip...

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Vid sidan av alla tuffa förhandlingar, publika sammanhang och svåra beslut händer livet. Där står också Annie - i tvivel, oro, prövningar och tacksamhet över att ens ha klarat sig. Har det varit värt det? I boken får vi följa med på nära håll geno...

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To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year - David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monar...

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A fully updated edition of Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, the first major biography of David Cameron, and now covering his first years as Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government.David Cameron is the first Conservative Pri...

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A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'.Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's war-...

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A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat...

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From the playing fields of Eton via the horrors of the Western Front to the pinnacle of political power in 20th-century Britain - a brilliant collective biography of Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisbury, Oliver Lyttleton and Harry Crookshank.Harold Ma...

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'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a result'...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction'A devastating indictment' SUNDAY TIMES'An important book, a superb piece of reporting' OBSERVER'With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of ...

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Two veteran journalists tell the inside story of convicted hate-monger Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die - and kill - for their cause...In the heightened atmosphere followin...

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'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.'Lloyd Ge...

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At the beginning of the financial crisis, in September 2008, Gordon Brown called an emergency press conference in which he declared, ''we will do whatever it takes to restore stability in the financial markets''.He was to repeated the phrase ?what...

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THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADEWINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARThe story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist.In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio...

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A call to arms, a chance for those born in the 70s and 80s to respond to the chaos. We can not stop the debt bomb but we can remove the Boomer politicians from office. There will be a general election in May. This is our opportunity to kick them o...

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This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.The compelling narrative draws on new sources such as letters, memoirs, ballads and ...

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This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British ...

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The authorised - but not uncritical - life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, who was also an eminent man of letters.Michael Foot was a controversial and charismatic figure in British pub...

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From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought.Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother wou...

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William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to le...

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The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)Indira Gandhi?s life, from her birth in 1917, through partition and up to h...

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