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Profesor emérito de Oxford, Archie Brown pone a los dirigentes mundiales en su contexto histórico; los distingue entre reformistas, transformadores, revolucionarios o totalitarios, y se pregunta, en fin, quienes son los mejores. Desde Adenauer al Dalai Lama pasando por Ataturk, Napoleon, De Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Castro, Hitler. Y mujeres como Thatcher, Merkel, Benazir Bhutto o Eva Peron.

Estos diarios dan testimonio de la experiencia política de Carlos Solchaga entre la primavera de 1980, cuando se incorporó al Congreso de los Diputados, hasta su dimisión como presidente del Grupo Parlamentario Socialista y como diputado por Navarra en mayo de 1994. Entre estas dos fechas fue ministro de Industria y Energia (diciembre de 1982 a junio de 1985) y de Economia y Hacienda (julio de 1985 a julio de 1993). Desde la cartera de Industria y Energia tuvo que afrontar importantes decisiones (entre otras, la reconversion industrial y el saneamiento del sector electrico) en el seno de un Gobierno que establecio las bases para la modernizacion de España, su adhesion a la Union Europea, entonces CEE, y la creacion de un moderno Estado del Bienestar. En su larga etapa como ministro de Economia y Hacienda siguio enfrentandose a situaciones dificiles, como las tensiones con UGT, que desembocaron en la huelga general de 1988, a consecuencia de los retos que planteaba la homologacion del pais con las economias abiertas y avanzadas de Europa, y como los enfrentamientos con grupos de interes en el proceso de concentracion bancaria y la guerra sucia que ello desato como efecto inevitable de los profundos cambios en la estructura de poder que se produjeron bajo el impulso del Gobierno socialista. Estas paginas reflejan la enorme complejidad de unos años decisivos en la historia politica y economica española, las luces y las sombras en la labor diaria de un joven politico socialista que siempre supo mantener su actitud critica.Estos diarios dan testimonio de la experiencia política de Carlos Solchaga entre la primavera de 1980, cuando se incorporó al Congreso de los Diputados, hasta su dimisión como presidente del Grupo Parlamentario Socialista y como diputado por Navarra en mayo de 1994. Entre estas dos fechas fue ministro de Industria y Energia (diciembre de 1982 a junio de 1985) y de Economia y Hacienda (julio de 1985 a julio de 1993). Desde la cartera de Industria y Energia tuvo que afrontar importantes decisiones (entre otras, la reconversion industrial y el saneamiento del sector electrico) en el seno de un Gobierno que establecio las bases para la modernizacion de España, su adhesion a la Union Europea, entonces CEE, y la creacion de un moderno Estado del Bienestar. En su larga etapa como ministro de Economia y Hacienda siguio enfrentandose a situaciones dificiles, como las tensiones con UGT, que desembocaron en la huelga general de 1988, a consecuencia de los retos que planteaba la homologacion del pais con las economias abiertas y avanzadas de Europa, y como los enfrentamientos con grupos de interes en el proceso de concentracion bancaria y la guerra sucia que ello desato como efecto inevitable de los profundos cambios en la estructura de poder que se produjeron bajo el impulso del Gobierno socialista. Estas paginas reflejan la enorme complejidad de unos años decisivos en la historia politica y economica española, las luces y las sombras en la labor diaria de un joven politico socialista que siempre supo mantener su actitud critica.

Primera biografía autorizada de Manuel Fraga Iribarne, uno de los padres de la Constitución y mítica fi gura de la Transición. Desde la infancia hasta la actualidad, este libro repasa las ideas y la actividad política de Manuel Fraga haciendo especial hincapié en su evolución de su pensamiento liberal conservador y su capacidad para adaptarse a las turbulentas mareas de la vida pública española desde los tiempos hasta hoy. Fragmento del prólogo: «El político liberal-conservador Manuel Fraga Iribarne (Villalba, 1922) se ha ganado un lugar destacado en brevísima lista de personajes a los siempre que habrá que volver en busca de esclarecimiento y orientación. Al hilo de su biografía contemplamos los hechos y las inquietudes del siglo XX desde una perspectiva que nos invita a cultivar la comprensión entre generaciones, un bien muy preciado, básico para la cordura política de una sociedad que ha pasado por graves difi cultades de convivencia.»

Con una perspectiva de cuatro décadas, el periodo histórico que llamamos Transición puede ser ya considerado como el más fructífero y apasionante de la España del siglo XX. Uno de sus protagonistas fue el teniente general Manuel Gutierrez Mellado quien fue vicepresidente y ministro de Defensa y del Gobierno de Adolfo Suarez. Su papel fue fundamental a la hora de asentar y consolidar la democracia, impidiendo que sectores militares la cortocircuitaran, interfiriendo en la misma con su decimononica tradicion de tutelar la sociedad, y emprendiendo una modernizacion sinigual del Ejercito haciendolo homologable al de cualquier pais europeo.Fernando Puell intenta desvelar quien era Gutierrez Mellado, que factores influyeron para que, en 1976, el rey Juan Carlos y el presidente Suarez lo consideraran el militar mas idoneo para hacerse cargo de la modernizacion de las Fuerzas Armadas. Para ello recorre la biografia de un hombre que nacio cuando gobernaba Canalejas y regia la Constitucion canovista de 1876, se educo durante la Dictadura de Primo de Rivera, sus primeros pasos en la milicia coincidieron con los años mas convulsos de aquel siglo, maduro humana y profesionalmente en tiempos de un regimen dictatorial y, al entrar en la tercera edad, se vio abocado a liderar militarmente la Transicion, tal vez el cometido mas complejo del proceso democratizador.Para llevar a cabo esta biografia, el autor se ha sumergido en un buen numero de archivos publicos, privados y particulares, ha mantenido entrevistas con quienes le conocieron, y ha consultado una amplia bibliografia; unido a la experiencia personal de que Fernando Puell permanecio en estrecho contacto con Gutierrez Mellado durante catorce años, desde 1978 a 1991. El resultado, un libro que trasciende el marco de la tradicional biografia para convertirse en un estudio de los logros de la Transicion de la que Gutierrez Mellado fue uno de sus principales protagonistas.

'Con mamá o con papá' narra la historia de Marco Acero, un Profesor de Universidad que deja la docencia para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a la política. Llega a ser Portavoz Adjunto del PSOE en las Cortes de Castilla y León en unos tiempos muy turbulentos, marcados por la despiadada lucha por el poder en el seno del partido entre Carlos Amigo, un joven político impuesto por Ferraz para su promoción personal, y Rodrigo Moreno, un socialista de provincias de la vieja guardia. La confrontación entre ellos acaba con la remota posibilidad del PSOE de gobernar algún día en la Región, y se lleva por delante al bueno de Marco.

The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.'The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert's remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.On 12 September 2018 British-Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran's most notorious judge, she was given a 10 year sentence and ultimately spent 804 days incarcerated in Tehran's Evin and Qarchak prisons.

Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. Volume One of Moore's authorized biography gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, taking us up to the zenith of her power: victory in the Falklands.Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher's papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable portrait of a towering figure of our times.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making?a record-breaking, critically acclaimed no.1 bestseller.'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on SundayIn the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama recounts his journey from a young man searching for his identity to the 44th president of the United States, describing in strikingly personal detail his political education and landmark moments of his first term.Reflecting on his presidency, Obama takes readers from his early political dreams to his Iowa caucus victory and the historic night of November 4, 2008, when he became the first African American president. It is the story of one mans bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage.

THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAILBoris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming Britains prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as Londons mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as foreign secretary. He won the largest Tory majority since 1987 when he went to the polls in December 2019 for a mandate to Get Brexit Done only to have his administration hit by the global Covid pandemic and toppled in a Tory putsch.Unleashed is his account of his time in politics, and a book that shatters the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir. Written in his inimitable style, it is honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing about the politician who has dominated our times.This is his story of the fifteen years since he trounced Ken Livingstone at the polls to become mayor of London. Riots, tackling knife crime, bikes, buses, the London Olympics, and so much more. He writes about his role in Brexit, takes readers through all the big decisions and his reasons for taking them, and describes how he nearly died from Covid.Underlying everything in the book is his view that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future. These are the reflections of a political leader who believes fundamentally in levelling up that there are millions of people in Britain who do not have the present they need or the future they deserve, and that it is the first job of politicians to put this right.It is all here. From soup to nuts, warts and all. As a journalist he was famed as a blurter of unsayable truths, and he has drawn again on this quality for the book. About people, policies, mistakes and triumphs. This is it the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, unlocked, unleashed.

'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.

A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon.Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel.

«Todo lo he hecho por mí mismo, nadie me ha regalado nada.» Gerhard Schröder Supo aprovechar sus oportunidades: de origen muy humilde, huérfano de padre al que nunca conoció, trabajó duramente toda s

At last, Simone Veil agrees to talk about herself in the first person. She recalls her childhood in the area of Nice in a family with Jewish roots, and of her deportation to the camps with her mother and one of her sisters in March 1944. In all the posts that she has occupied, Veil has stood out as one of the figureheads of French politics. The epitomy of a free woman, she has had positions of power which she never exploited to her own ends, but to better the living conditions of her fellow citizens. She worked for the Administration of Prisons, as well as for the Ministry of Health of the Jacques Chirac government under Valery Giscard dEstaings presidency. In the latter function, she worked against her own political side, for the vote for the legalization of abortion. She was head of the European Parliament where she stood up to French Prime Minister Raymond Barre. She was also state minister des Affaires Sociales, de la Sante et de la Ville in Balladurs government under François Mitterrands presidency ; She was nominated at the Conseil constitutionnel as well as to the Fondation pour la memoire de la Shoah. True to her belief of what the role of the survivors of the camps should be, she has testified again and again, in France and elsewhere. If the work of remembrance is crucial to Veil, it is not the past, however, but the future that concerns her, and the kind of world that will exist for her grand-children and great grand-children who occupy such a great place in her life.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON''S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA''S 67TH SECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE.''All of us face hard choices in our lives,'' Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the centre of world events. ''Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.''In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the Unites States Senate. To her surprise, her formal rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted.Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm''s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, travelled nearly one million miles and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of girls, youth and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day.Secretary Clinton''s descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a masterclass in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use ''smart power'' to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world - one in which America remains the indispensable nation.

Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever -- to serve as Secretary of State.

"- A toi, je peux le dire, c'était le jour le plus triste de ma vie."Cet aveu, lâché un soir de septembre 2007, devant une amie très chère, dans un moment d'abandon, Nicolas Sarkozy ne le confessera plus jamais à personne.Il disait vrai pourtant, mais qui aurait pu le croire ? Ce triste jour étant le 6 mai 2007. Celui même de son élection à la Présidence de la République. Le couronnement de son ambition depuis ses vingt ans.Ce n'est pas le poids des responsabilités à venir qui assaille et inquiète le nouveau Président : c'est le désastre de sa vie privée. Le vainqueur du 6 mai est un vaincu de l'amour.C'est à partir de cette douleur originelle que Catherine Nay recompose toute l'histoire du quinquennat sarkozyste : de ses audaces à ses échecs, du blin-bling à la crise financière, de l'homme-orchestre des sommets européens au chef de guerre.Anecdotes, coulisses, secrets d'Etat alternent ici avec l'analyse — parfois empathique, parfois sévère — de ce que furent les grandes ambitions d'un règne perturbé par le désordre du monde.Et si c'était à refaire ?Dans ce roman d'un Président, Catherine Nay enquête, révèle, éclaire. Son "Impétueux" est, sans doute, le portrait le plus fidèle de l'homme qui, redevenu candidat, souhaite désormais reconduire son idylle avec la France.

The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possessionuntil the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to Rwanda was ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected, how our actionsand inactiontouch people every day across the globe, people we may never know or meet.From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing organization she runs today, Novogratz tells gripping stories with unforgettable characterswomen dancing in a Nairobi slum, unwed mothers starting a bakery, courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds.She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking, how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and can change millions of lives. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world.

Esta es la historia de un catalán ejemplar que se llamaba don Francesc Macià i Llussà, que fue querido y admirado por el ejército español y toda la gente que le circundaba. A la que traspasó los umbr