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Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Michael BeschlossIn this modest, elegant, appealing and introspective autobiography, Ted Sorensen writes about his service to John Kennedy as senator and president with a candor that, he confesses, would have been inconceivable while writing his glowing 1965 reminiscence, Kennedy, or while Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was alive. The Nebraska-born Sorensen describes himself as a moralist not unlike his Unitarian father, C.A. Sorensen, a onetime state attorney general (and a Republican). He reproaches himself for still feeling shame and stigma about the emotional illnesses of his Russian-Jewish mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, and for his two divorces, which will make him feel embarrassed until my dying day.Sorensen does not spare the man who remains his old hero. He declines to defend or rationalize JFK''s carefree misconduct and broken marriage vows, writing, It was wrong, and he knew it was wrong. He criticizes Kennedy''s failure while a senator in 1954 to help censure the Wisconsin demagogue Joseph McCarthy. Unlike some of Kennedy''s most extreme defenders, he does not insist that JFK would have withdrawn American troops from Vietnam after reelection in 1964. Excluded from Kennedy''s glittering social life, Sorensen recalls the president''s cool crowd regarded him with thinly veiled patronizing. New sidelights include Jackie''s later private observation that her husband was truly frightened that Lyndon Johnson might someday become president. Sorensen knows that history will view him mainly as architect of much of Kennedy''s enduring rhetoricand the collaborator (at least) on JFK''s famous 1956 book, Profiles in Courage. Such prominence unsettled the Kennedys, who wanted JFK''s speeches and writings to be taken as his own. Sorensen reveals that after the commercial success of Profiles, Kennedy privately gave him a large share of the book''s substantial royalties, and Sorensen wrote his boss a letter pledging not to push for recognition of my participation in its writing. The faithful Sorensen felt crushed in 1987 when Jackie Onassis wrote him an angry letter implying (unfairly) that Sorensen might be ambitious to seize credit for her husband''s speeches. Sorensen says he never knew how much his old frostiness and protectiveness of his relationship with JFK estranged some colleagues. Blessed wi

La vida está hecha de recuerdos, de momentos que marcan, de aquello que con el paso del tiempo, aún somos capaces de recordar. Cuando esos recuerdos, los cuentas con la misma proporción de sensibilid

En las páginas de Tiempo para aprender, Sonia Somalo abre su corazón para narrar, con honestidad y sin filtros, sus vivencias dentro de un hospital. Entre recuerdos, reflexiones y conversaciones con otros pacientes, construye un retrato humano de la fragilidad, la esperanza y la fuerza que se necesitan para seguir adelante. Un testimonio intimo y valiente que invita a mirar mas alla de los prejuicios, a valorar las pequeñas victorias y a no perder nunca la fe en uno mismo.

Andreu Nin (1896-1937) fue una de las figuras más importantes del socialismo español en el siglo XX. Esta biografía refleja de forma sintética su trayectoria política y humana como dirigente revolucionario, fundador del POUM, teorico marxista, consejero de Justicia de la Generalitat de Cataluña e intelectual catalan de primera fila.El libro reconstruye la larga lucha por el conocimiento de la verdad sobre su secuestro, en junio de 1937, y su posterior tortura y asesinato por agentes estalinistas, con la complicidad de los dirigentes del Partido Comunista de España.

In 1907 Princess Sophy (''Sofka'') Dolgorouky was born in St Petersburg. Members of the Imperial family had attended her parents'' wedding earlier that same year, and the child was born into a privileged world of nurses, private tutors and elegant tea parties. The Russian Revolution caused the princess to flee across Europe to England, but it was the Second World War that left the deepest marks on her adult life. During those years, she left her first husband and lost her second. Later, she was interned in a Nazi prison camp, where she discovered Communism and showed great bravery in defending the rights of the Jewish prisoners. It was her Communism which took her back to the Soviet Union as an improbable tour guide for British workers. And Communism, albeit indirectly, brought her the last love of her life, Jack, a working-class Londoner who had never been abroad. Sofka''s colourful life also included a close friendship with Laurence Olivier, innumerable lovers, some serious, some quickly discarded, and an abiding love of reading and especially poetry. This affectionate portrait of the ''red princess'' by her granddaughter and namesake uses letters, diaries and interviews to recreate a vanished world and also explore the author''s own Russian roots.

"We gazed transfixed across the small, strangely tropical bay at the bottom of the hill, and the surrounding palm trees and sandy beaches. Beyond the bay was the wide expanse of the Saronic Gulf, with its distant traffic of boats leaving for the islands and returning to the port at Piraeus". This was Sofka Zinovieff''s first sight of the view from Eurydice Street. It was so irresistible that she and her husband immediately knew that they would make their home there. Sofka had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a fresh, funny and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have to get to grips with their new life and identities: the children start school and tackle a new language, and Sofka''s husband, Vassilis, comes home after half a lifetime away. Meanwhile, Sofka resolves to get to know her new city and become a Greek citizen, which turns out to be a process of Byzantine complexity. As the months go by, Sofka''s discovers how memories of Athens'' past haunt its present in its music, poetry and history.She also learns about the difficult art of catching a taxi, the importance of smoking, the unimportance of time-keeping, and how to get your Christmas piglet cooked at the baker''s.

Una hora antes de la medianoche del dia 18 de agosto de 1948, un coronel ucraniano yacía muerto en una prisión soviética de Kiev. Había sido espía en Viena, trabajando primero contra Hitler durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, despues, contra Stalin en los primeros años de la guerra fria. Habia eludido la Gestapo, pero no el contraespionaje sovietico. Un dia, el coronel ucraniano dijo a sus colegas que salia a almorzar y nunca mas volvio a ser visto en Viena. Fue secuestrado por soldados del Ejercito Rojo, llevado en avion a la Union Sovietica e interrogado mas de lo que un hombre puede soportar. Murio en el hospital de la prision y fue enterrado en una tumba sin lapida. Habia nacido en 1895 en el seno de la familia mas antigua y grande de Europa. Descendiente de emperadores, se llamaba Guillermo y era un principe Habsburgo. Su destino empezo a forjarse durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando decide aprender la lengua ucraniana y ponerse al frente de las tropas ucranianas durante el conflicto. Desde 1918, trabajo para forjar la conciencia nacional entre los campesinos y ayudo a los pobres a conservar la tierra que habian quitado a los ricos. Se convirtio en una leyenda a lo largo y ancho del pais: el Habsburgo que hablaba ucraniano, el archiduque que amaba a la gente corriente, el Principe Rojo. A traves de la fascinante personalidad de Guillermo, Timothy Snyder traza el enfrentamiento entre una idea de Europa por encima de las naciones, la que durante seis siglos de poder initerrumpido representaron los Habsburgo, y la idea de nacion como expresion de hechos inalterables del pasado antes que voluntad humana en el presente, como la consideraban tanto nazis como sovieticos. Hoy ninguno de ellos pervive, pero Europa sigue debatiendose entre ambas opciones. El Principe Rojo opto por la libertad de los pueblos y fue juzgadoy sentenciado por los dos totalitarismos. Esta es su historia.

Discover one woman s solo journey from Land s End to Greece embracing solitude self discovery and resilience Good Housekeeping recommended 20 uplifting memoirs by remarkable women June 2024 Wanderlust magazine best travel books of 2024 A lesson on how to live how to heal how to grow and how to fly Gordan Buchanan A beautiful wise and open hearted odyssey through life loves and the sea Patrick Barkham author of The Butterfly Isles I didn t know a love song between a woman and her boat could transport and transfix me The Half Bird made my heart whole Rhik Samadder author of I Never Said I Loved You We have no idea how much resilience there is inside us until we have to draw on it We learn that we grow through adversity only as we go through it That we crave happiness like plants leaning toward the light In 2016 Susan Smillie quit her job to sail round the British Isles aboard her beloved yacht Isean Yet when it came to rounding the tip of Cornwall she unexpectedly headed south leaving home in her wake Over the next three years she sailed the continent living with only the basics she had aboard by her wits and via the kindness of the people and beauty of the coasts she encountered But Susan s travels were just the be

Una biografía actualizada del revolucionario cubano, una de las personalidades más polémicas y fascinantes del siglo XX.

La biografía definitiva del líder cubanoMito e icono, este hijo de terratenientes educado por jesuitas es una de las personalidades más polemicas de nuestra epoca. Descubrir su vida y comprender sus contradicciones constituye el primer paso para analizar si abrira su pais a las reformas economicas y a la democratizacion o bien perseverara en su viejo lema: "Socialismo o muerte".

Mito e icono, Fidel Castro, es una de las personalidades más polémicas de la era contemporánea. Descubrir su vida y sus contradicciones constituye el primer paso para analizar con objetividad la política del lider caribeño y comprender, que podria ocurrir tras la desaparicion de tan emblematica figura. Siguiendo a este superviviente nato, recorremos ademas las tensas relaciones entre Oriente y Occidente, Norte y Sur, ricos y pobres, que han caracterizado la historia del siglo XX.

Domingo Badía y Leblich fue un ilustrado, erudito, científico, dibujante, aventurero y espía español nacido en Barcelona en el año 1767. Su increíble vida y sus enormes viajes son aún recordados, especialmente su estancia en Marruecos, cuando fue enviado en mision secreta por el ministro Manuel Godoy, disfrazado de principe abasida y tomando el nombre de Ali Bey. Tras ser expulsado de este pais, viajo a La Meca, donde llego el 23 de enero de 1807. Fue uno de los primeros europeos en conseguirlo y realizo unas descripciones precisas de la ciudad santa del islamismo jugandose la vida.Badia regreso a Europa tras seis años de ausencia y cuando llego a Paris, Napoleon le ordeno que marchara a Madrid y se pusiera a las ordenes de su hermano Jose I, el nuevo rey español. Badia fue nombrado Intendente General para la provincia de Segovia y mas tarde Prefecto de Cordoba, pero tras la definitiva victoria española, Badia y su familia se exiliaron a Francia por afrancesados. Alli se le otorgo una pension y se dedico a escribir la obra de su viaje. Mas tarde, el gobierno frances acepto su propuesta para realizar un nuevo viaje de peregrinacion a La Meca y desde alli unirse a una caravana en direccion a Tombuctu. Pero todo salio mal.Esta biografia, una de las pocas escritas sobre el personaje, recupera la memoria del carismatico y poliedrico Domingo Badia, alias Ali Bey, y reconstruye su vida y extraordinarios viajes. Una experiencia que sumerge al lector en la epoca del viajero a traves de sus ilustraciones originales y los retratos de aquellos personajes con los que se toparia en sus aventuras.