Politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional group by the UK public. This book tries to lift the lid on the strange world of Westminster and asks why we end up with representatives with whom we are so unhappy
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Conservative radio host Michael Savage examines the initial appointments, speeches, tweets and history of Donald Trump and offers his insights and analysis
Drawing on newly declassified documents and of unpublished material, it tells the story of a masterful president Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through civil rights and Cold War confl…
Jimmy Carters (f. 1924) dagbog fra hans tid som USA's præsident 1977-81.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'American Lion' draws on exclusive sources to provide a portrait of the 41st president that traces the Bush family's humble 19th-century origins, his Connecticut childhood, his military service, his business achievements and his political acc…
In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a …
Takes readers behind the camera to explore the negotiations and relationships that developed between key Hollywood insiders and presidential candidates from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, analyzing how entertainment replaced party spectacle as a strategy to raise money, win …
The authors look at Churchill's portrayal in social memory. They demonstrate the ways in which politicians have often used the idea of Churchill as a means of self-validation - using him to show themselves as tough and honest players. They show the man dramatized in film and tel…
H.W. Brands establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the 20th century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan's personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a…
"Married to Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter Edda, young Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903-44) became il Duce's confidant, emissary, and heir apparent in the years preceding World War II. Appointed foreign minister in 1936, Ciano played a central role in the Axis partnership negoti…
Biografi om USA's 40. præsident, Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
A portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan
This objective, well-researched biography tells the story of the woman whose meteoric rise to the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidacy made history.