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Excelente libro que narra la biografía de la fotógrafa Dora Maar, amante y musa de Picasso durante siete años. Contiene, muchas otras, fotografías que ésta le hizo pintando, en la playa, sólo o con sus amigos, el documento unico del proceso de creacion del Guernica en el que ella es la mujer que lleva la lampara.

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, famed as England''s most successful ruler yet actually doing little, Elizabeth I is full of contradictions. This biography aims to turn the paradox into a person. Starting with Elizabeth''s own speeches and writings, the author lays emphasis on two things: her faith made her see religion as a purely personal relationship between the individual conscience and God, yet her sophisticated education led her to a smoke-and-mirrors view of politics, in which clever image-making and speech-writing could solve or postpone real problems. The result was a surprisingly contemporary approach to some very modern questions, like civil strife in Scotland and Ireland and the risk of England''s absorption into a European super-state. This approach to the enigma of the Queen''s character is presented in a retelling of her reign; her love for Robert Dudley, the tragi-comedy of her favourites and suitors, her struggles with Mary Queen of Scots and Philip II of Spain and the final, humiliating debacle of her relationship with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Clarissa Eden Countess of Avon wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden once famously said For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room With her impressive intellect and acerbic wit she was a highly influential muse to many leading figures over several decades At Oxford in the 1940s she fascinated dons and undergraduates alike She went on to work in the film world for Alexander Korda and for George Weidenfeld at Contact Magazine She was a close friend of Cecil Beaton James Pope Hennessy Lucian Freud Isaiah Berlin and Lord Goodman She fascinated Greta Garbo After an early Bohemian life she became a politically active wife to Eden when he was Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister particularly during the Suez Crisis in 1956 Her death at 101 in 2021 has opened the way for this enthralling and revealing biography by the widely admired biographer Hugo Vickers He knew her well for over 40 years and consigned her revealing private papers and sharply written diaries to him Here also are first hand contributions from friends such as Antonia Fraser Clarissa Eden s story sheds invaluable light on a rapidly vanishing age and an extraordinary woman

Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style Boris Johnson s Unleashed is an honest unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times Underlying everything in the book is Johnson s belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future From trouncing Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral race in 2008 to becoming prime minister he takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and the reasons he took them The challenges and crises how they were resolved or not and how he nearly died from Covid Riots knife crime bikes buses the London Olympics and so much more He writes about his role in Brexit and the constitutional sea change that took place in British politics in 2019 with his landslide election victory and the massive expansion in the groups that think of themselves as Conservative This is the reality as he saw it unvarnished uncensored unleashed

A powerful candid and richly detailed memoir from an American icon revealing what life looks like after the presidency triumphs tribulations and all On 20th January 2001 after nearly thirty years in politics eight of them as President of the United States Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen Only fifty four years old full of energy and ideas he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills his relationships with world leaders and all he d learned in a lifetime of politics but how Just days after leaving the White House the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India and Clinton hit the ground running Over the next two decades he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work from Indonesia to Louisiana Northern Ireland to South Africa and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world Citizen is Clinton s front row first person chronicle of his post presidential years and the most significant events of the twenty first century including 9 11 and the runup to the Iraq War the Haiti earthquake the Great Recession COVID 19 the January 6th insurrection and the enduring culture wars of our times Yet Citizen is more than a presidential memo

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers the first Duke of Buckingham Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic seductively detailed biography OLIVIA LAINGAs King James I s favourite Buckingham was also his confidant gatekeeper right hand man and lover When Charles I succeeded his father he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilful player of the political game Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth century royal and political life With a novelist s touch Lucy Hughes Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing exquisite clothes the art of Rubens and Van Dyck gender fluidity same sex desire and appallingly rudimentary medicine Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacon s empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force Falling from grace spectacularly Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties

Las creaciones y mil y una empresas del infatigable Serguéi Diáguilev (1872-1929) fueron, a la vez, encarnaciÛn y profecía del más deslumbrante espectáculo de su época. Seguir los pasos de su vida es