Politicians

The military general who became Emperor Hirohito’s prime minister, Tojo Hideki is most often remembered as an iron-fisted leader who dragged Japan into World War II and—after spectacular losses—was eventually executed as a war criminal. Yet Tojo was far more than his ignominious end. In...

Discover the remarkable life of James A. Garfield... James A. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States. He held that title for only a few brief months before falling victim to an assassin’s bullet. Like Abraham Lincoln before him, Garfield was cut down by a gunman before his vision could be realized. Yet while Lincoln is immortalized, Garfield has been all but forgotten, a fate as unfair as the one that ended his life. In his short life, Garfield established himself as a well-known figure in American politics.

The tragic story of ancient Greece's last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a town in central Greece, a base from which he could march on Athens. In the fierce debates about...

Nel febbraio del 1984 un Massimo D'Alema trentacinquenne, «giovane dirigente comunista periferico», viene scelto per far parte della delegazione del PCI che parteciperà ai funerali di Jurij Andropov a Mosca. Il diario di quei giorni moscoviti, di cui D'Alema riporta stralci in queste pagine, è un tesoro di scorci e immagini: Pertini che gioca a carte sul volo di Stato, l'impatto con le complessità del cerimoniale sovietico, la solennità delle esequie alla presenza di una pletora di capi di Stato, da Fidel Castro a Margaret Thatcher a Yasser Arafat.

This collection captures the fiery conviction and moral force of Eugene V. Debs, one of America’s most influential labor leaders and socialist voices. The Common Laborer and Speech of Sedition reflect his passionate defense of workers, civil liberties, and political dissent in the face of inequality and state power. Together, these works offer a powerful glimpse into the radical labor politics and democratic ideals that shaped early twentieth-century America.

Книга бывшего президента Армении и бывшего президента непризнанной Народно-Карабахской республики проливает свет на события одного из самых сложных периодов новейшей истории армянского народа. Перед вами версия организатора и участника важнейших событий в Армении и Карабахе. Эти сведения ранее нигде не публиковались. Здесь вы найдете засекреченные документы, а также исторические фото из личного архива Роберта Кочаряна.

New York Times Bestseller One of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness offers the intimate story of how her life gave birth to these ideas. It is not very often that someone comes...

In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the United States Capitol, defending his family's honor and the rights of slaveholders. In beating Sumner unconscious, Brooks fueled a nationwide clash over slavery that ended in...

Bloomsbury presents Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France by Jean-Vincent Blanchard, read by Craig Van Ness. Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power...

How Positive Youth Development Became a Battleground for Democracy is a powerful dual memoir that traces the collision of public service, equity, and political backlash within one of America’s most iconic youth programs: 4-H.