The Grimaldis of Monaco

The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II,...

Besturen zonder wij

De bestuurskunde en de bestuurspraktijk zijn gebouwd op de vooronderstelling dat de samenleving een kern heeft, een 'wij', bestaande uit een set waarden over waar we naartoe gaan en en manier van doen...

Riding with George

Long before George Washington was a president or general, he was a sportsman. Born in 1732, he had a physique and aspirations that were tailor made for his age, one in which displays of physical prowe...

Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man

A personal, behind-the-scenes look at a Democratic icon Governor Mario Cuomo's life and accomplishments are part of the public record, but in Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man, William...

The Seminarian

Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend divinity school up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or ML back then, immedi...

Supermac

Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politican. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in the Fi...

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Enco...

Herbst in Nordkorea

The Stalking of Julia Gillard

'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.' Julia Gillard..When Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 2...

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A Promised Land

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidentia...