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Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Par Wendy Holden, Marthe Cohn. 2007
Marthe Cohn was in her late teens when Hitler was rising to power. Living across the German border in Alsace-Lorraine,…
her family began taking in Jews who were fleeing the Nazis, as well as the Jewish children being sent away by terrified parents. Soon her own homeland was under Nazi rule, and she and her parents, brothers, and sisters were forced to live the restricted lives of all Jews. As the Nazi occupation of France escalated along with the war, Marthe's sister was arrested and eventually sent to Auschwitz, and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army.Behind Enemy Lines is Marthe Cohn's memoir of a time and place that has mesmerized the world for more than half a century. But at its heart it is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be.Recently, at the age of eighty, Marthe Cohn was awarded France's highest military honor, the Medaille Militaire, a relatively rare medal awarded for outstanding military service and given, in the past, to the likes of Winston Churchill. With this award came official acknowledgment of the heroic exploits of a beautiful young Jewish woman who faced death every day as she sought to help defeat the Nazi empire.When the spotlight was turned on Marthe Cohn, not even her children or grandchildren knew to what extent this modest woman had been involved with the Allies in fighting the evils of the greatest war of the twentieth century. She had fought valiantly to retrieve needed inside information about Nazi troop movements by slipping behind enemy lines, utilizing her perfect German accent and blond hair to pose as a young German nurse who was desperately trying to obtain word about a fictional fiancé. In traveling about the countryside and approaching troops sympathetic to her plight, she learned where they were going next and was able to alert Allied commanders.From the Hardcover edition.Sílabas sin ruido
Par Janeth Toledo. 2017
Un poemario que surge desde el verbo que se hace en silencio, en íntima comunión con su cuerpo y la…
naturaleza. Desde hace más de veinte años y hasta el día de hoy -cuando al parecer ha fijado ya su residencia definitiva en la tierra- Janeth Toledo ha vivido en distintos parajes del Valle de los Chillos en los cuales ha afinado su percepción y comprensión de la naturaleza. En ese diálogo con el paisaje -entendido como espacio de meditación y reflexión- Janeth encuentra buena parte de los elementos con los que construye sus poemas: sutiles visiones del entorno en las que proyecta sus emociones y su memoria, o al revés: el caudal de su experiencia afectiva transformando y resignificando el paisaje que habita. «Después de la lloviznatodo campo es más verdebrilla la hojay en su nervadura late febrilel pulso de la vida.» En el filón creativo de los poetas románticos, la autora interioriza la naturaleza, la hace pasar por su cuerpo y sus afectos para devolverla al lector trastocada, en forma de imágenes reveladoras, elocuentes en su laconismo y en su sigilo. Si sus palabras «nacen en la opacidad», su voz ruge «en el primer aliento / de las valvas». Esta hermosa imagen inaugural acaso resuma su dicción y su verdad: traducir el grito del cuerpo a una lengua de secretos y murmullos, decir la vida a través de las pequeñas hendiduras del cuerpo, aquellas que abren el sexo y los sentidos, nuestros más precisos instrumentos de conocimiento y de comunicación. Con este pequeño, íntimo, entrañable poemario, Janeth Toledo debuta en la poesía para cantar en voz baja y eficaz las profundas certezas e incertidumbres que no invaden ahora mismo. Hay que apegarla oreja para escuchar su rugido. Cristóbal ZapataSleeping with the Dictionary (New California Poetry #4)
Par Harryette Mullen. 2002
What Was the Ice Age? (What Was?)
Par Nico Medina, David Groff, Who Hq. 2017
A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly…
mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient world in a vivid and easy-to-read narrative.Neruda: The Poet's Calling
Par Mark Eisner. 2018
The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing…
and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic love. Neruda: The Poet’s Calling is the product of fifteen years of research by Mark Eisner, writer, translator, and documentary filmmaker. The book vividly depicts Neruda’s monumental life, potent verse, and ardent belief in the “poet’s obligation” to use poetry for social good. It braids together three major strands of Neruda’s life—his world-revered poetry; his political engagement; and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal life—forming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.The fascinating events of Neruda’s life are interspersed with Eisner’s thoughtful examinations of the poems, both as works of art in their own right and as mirrors of Neruda’s life and times. The result is a book that animates Neruda’s riveting story in a new way—one that offers a compelling narrative version of Neruda’s life and work, undergirded by exhaustive research, yet designed to bring this colossal literary figure to a broader audience.Playing with Fire
Par Lawrence O'Donnell. 1968
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential…
election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it todayThe 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America’s shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. Playing With Fire represents O’Donnell’s master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams in real time. Nothing went according to the script. LBJ was confident he'd dispatch with Nixon, the GOP frontrunner; Johnson's greatest fear and real nemesis was RFK. But Kennedy and his team, despite their loathing of the president, weren't prepared to challenge their own party’s incumbent. Then, out of nowhere, Eugene McCarthy shocked everyone with his disloyalty and threw his hat in the ring to run against the president and the Vietnam War. A revolution seemed to be taking place, and LBJ, humiliated and bitter, began to look mortal. Then RFK leapt in, LBJ dropped out, and all hell broke loose. Two assassinations and a week of bloody riots in Chicago around the Democratic Convention later, and the old Democratic Party was a smoldering ruin, and, in the last triumph of old machine politics, Hubert Humphrey stood alone in the wreckage. Suddenly Nixon was the frontrunner, having masterfully maintained a smooth façade behind which he feverishly held his party’s right and left wings in the fold, through a succession of ruthless maneuvers to see off George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and the great outside threat to his new Southern Strategy, the arch-segregationist George Wallace. But then, amazingly, Humphrey began to close, and so, in late October, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest dirty tricks in American political history, an act that may well meet the statutory definition of treason. The tone was set for Watergate and all else that was to follow, all the way through to today. A New York Times BestsellerThe Truth Is Told Better This Way
Par Liz Worth. 2017
Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to…
their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its secrets one line at a time. The result is oracular and surreal, as each piece could be read as a magic spell that mesmerizes as much as a poem that tantalizes the senses.Richelieu and Mazarin
Par David J. Sturdy. 2004
Drawing upon recent research and past studies, David J. Sturdy presents a concise, up-to-date analysis of the private and public…
careers of two of the most influential ministers in seventeenth-century France. Richelieu and Mazarin: - adopts a broadly chronological approach, interspersed with passages at relevant points which compare and contrast the key achievements of the two Cardinals - examines such central themes as the internal government of France, the ministers' conduct of foreign policy, and the nature of elite and popular resistance to their policies - explores the political ideas and strategies of Richelieu and Mazarin, the relations between the ministers and the Crown, and the patronage they exercised The book concludes with a comparative assessment of the significance of the two figures for the history of France.Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
Par Caroline Kennedy. 2011
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time,…
they can be read in this deluxe, illustrated eBook.Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon its completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy's wishes.The resulting eight and a half hours of material comprises a unique and compelling record of a tumultuous era, providing fresh insights on the many significant people and events that shaped JFK's presidency but also shedding new light on the man behind the momentous decisions. Here are JFK's unscripted opinions on a host of revealing subjects, including his thoughts and feelings about his brothers Robert and Ted, and his take on world leaders past and present, giving us perhaps the most informed, genuine, and immediate portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy we shall ever have. Mrs. Kennedy's urbane perspective, her candor, and her flashes of wit also give us our clearest glimpse into the active mind of a remarkable First Lady.In conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy's Inauguration, Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family are now releasing these beautifully restored recordings on CDs with accompanying transcripts. Introduced and annotated by renowned presidential historian Michael Beschloss, these interviews will add an exciting new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of President Kennedy and his time and make the past come alive through the words and voice of an eloquent eyewitness to history.Nino and Me
Par Bryan A. Garner. 2018
From legal expert and veteran author Bryan Garner comes a unique, intimate, and compelling memoir of his friendship with the…
late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.For almost thirty years, Antonin Scalia was arguably the most influential and controversial Justice on the United States Supreme Court. His dynamic and witty writing devoted to the Constitution has influenced an entire generation of judges. Based on his reputation for using scathing language to criticize liberal court decisions, many people presumed Scalia to be gruff and irascible. But to those who knew him as “Nino,” he was characterized by his warmth, charm, devotion, fierce intelligence, and loyalty. Bryan Garner’s friendship with Justice Scalia was instigated by celebrated writer David Foster Wallace and strengthened over their shared love of language. Despite their differing viewpoints on everything from gun control to the use of contractions, their literary and personal relationship flourished. Justice Scalia even officiated at Garner’s wedding. In this humorous, touching, and surprisingly action-packed memoir, Garner gives a firsthand insight into the mind, habits, and faith of one of the most famous and misunderstood judges in the world.Becoming Billie Holiday
Par Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper. 2008
Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a…
daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Billie Holiday sang as if she had lived each lyric, and in many ways she had. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles Eleanora Fagan's metamorphosis into Billie Holiday. The author examines the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion in this Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. With stunning art by Floyd Cooper, this book provides a revealing look at a cultural icon.Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President
Par Betty Boyd Caroli. 2015
A fresh look at Lady Bird Johnson that upends her image as a plain Jane who was married for her…
money and mistreated by Lyndon. This Lady Bird worked quietly behind the scenes through every campaign, every illness, and a trying presidency as a key strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and indispensable therapist.Lady Bird grew up the daughter of a domineering father and a cultured but fragile mother. When a tall, pushy Texan named Lyndon showed up in her life, she knew what she wanted: to leave the rural Texas of her childhood and experience the world like her mother dreamed, while climbing the mountain of ambition she inherited from her father. She married Lyndon within weeks, and the bargain they struck was tacitly agreed upon in the courtship letters they exchanged: this highly gifted politician would take her away, and she would save him from his weaknesses. The conventional story goes that Lyndon married Lady Bird for her money, demeaned her by flaunting his many affairs, and that her legacy was protecting the nation's wildflowers. But she was actually a full political partner throughout his ascent--the one who swooped in to make the key call to a donor, to keep the team united, to campaign in hostile territory, and to jumpstart him out of his paralyzing darkness. And while others were shocked that she put up with his womanizing, she always knew she had the upper hand. Lady Bird began the partnership by using part of her nest egg to help finance Lyndon's first political campaign. Over and over, she kept him from quitting, including the 1948 election when he was so immobilized with self-pity that she had to pick up the phone to solicit donations on his behalf. She was also the one who got him out of bed, when he was in a deep funk, to go to the 1964 Democratic nominating convention. In Lady Bird and Lyndon, Betty Boyd Caroli restores Lady Bird to her rightful place in history, painting a vivid portrait of a marriage with complex, but familiar and identifiable overtones.Boris
Par Cynthia Rylant. 2005
Boris is a big gray cat who loves sleeping and playing and exploring and hunting. And his owner loves him…
for all of his simple cat ways.But Boris, typical as he may be, is part of a much larger story in this moving exploration of love, longing, compassion, and most of all, the continuous give-and-take of companionship.Newbery medalist Cynthia Rylant's powerful collection of poems is sure to find its place in the hearts of readers of all ages, especially those who have been lucky enough to experience the many joys and hardships that come with true friendship.This book explores Charles De Gaulle s use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969 highlighting the…
association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic A protagonist of European political history of the twentieth century Charles de Gaulle was a pioneer in the use of mass media in the Second World War he had earned the nickname of G 65533 n 65533 ral-micro due to his reliance on radio communication in 1958 he then started an substantive and fruitful use of television which some of his opponents labelled as telecracy From difficult beginnings where he followed the advice of publicity and communication experts through his masterful TV appearances during the dramatic moments of the Algerian War to the presidential campaign of 1965 and the crisis of May 1968 the author paints a compelling fresco of de Gaulle as the first TV leader in contemporary European history The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the fields of French politics political communication and political leadershipSigning Their Lives Away
Par Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese. 2009
In July 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy the British and sign the most important document…
in the history of the United States and yet how many of them do we actually remember?Signing Their Lives Awayintroduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, criminals, and crackpots who were chosen to sign this historic document and the many strange fates that awaited them. Some died from war-related injuries; others had their homes and farms seized by British soldiers; a few rose to the highest levels of U. S. government (ten signers were later elected to Congress). George Wythe was murdered by his nephew; Button Gwinnet was killed in a duel; and of course Sam Adams went on to fame and fortune as a patriot/brewer. Complete with a reversible parchment jacket (offering a facsimile of the Declaration on the reverse),Signing Their Lives Awayprovides an entertaining and enlightening narrative for history buffs of all ages.Original Fire
Par Louise Erdrich. 2003
In this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two…
previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.Signing Their Rights Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution
Par Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese. 2011
Unfold Book Jacket for a Full-Color Reproduction of the U.S. ConstitutionWith their book Signing Their Lives Away, Denise Kiernan and…
Joseph D'Agnese introduced readers to the 56 statesmen (and occasional scoundrels!) who signed the Declaration of Independence. Now they've turned their attention to the 39 men who met in the summer of 1787 and put their names to the U.S. Constitution. Signing Their Rights Away chronicles a moment in American history when our elected officials knew how to compromise--and put aside personal gain for the greater good of the nation. These men were just as quirky and flawed as the elected officials we have today: Hugh Williamson believed in aliens, Robert Morris went to prison, Jonathan Dayton stole $18,000 from Congress, and Thomas Mifflin was ruined by alcohol. Yet somehow these imperfect men managed to craft the world's most perfect Constitution. With 39 mini-biographies and a reversible dust jacket that unfolds into a poster of the original document, Signing Their Rights Away offers an entertaining and enlightening narrative for history buffs of all ages.From the Hardcover edition.Lenin
Par James D. White. 2001
A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that…
had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of the Soviet state. The book places Lenin in the context of his times and shows his relationship to other socialist thinkers. In particular it locates Lenin within the development of Marxist thought in Russia. Its historiographical chapter reveals the political factors which influenced the way biographies of Lenin were written in the Soviet Union. The book makes extensive use of first-hand materials including sources from the Russian archives.Four Days in November: The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy
Par Vincent Bugliosi. 2007
"A book for the ages."--?Los Angeles Times Book Review Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive…
narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a huge and historic account of the event and all the conspiracy theories it spawned, by Vincent Bugliosi, famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter. For general readers, the carefully documented account presented in Four Days is utterly persuasive: Oswald did it and he acted alone.Tú y yo nunca fuimos nosotros
Par Selam Wearing. 2017
Selam Wearing se revela con su primer poemario como uno de los grandes talentos literarios de su generación. Su poética…
está llena de ternura, sensualidad, humor, imágenes muy certeras y comunicativas que rozan la anécdota y que hacen evidente la influencia de la poesía de la experiencia, el realismo sucio o el neorrealismo en su imaginario. Esto no es otro libro de poemas, soy yo pidiendo auxilio, pero nadie me socorre. He asumido que nunca nos olvidaremos. Cada vez que nos cruzamos sus ojos se revelan ante mí, nostálgicos de todo aquello que no hemos sido, preguntándose acaso si aún no es demasiado tarde. Pero ninguno hace nada. Ella se muerde el labio y mira a cualquier otra parte con los pensamientos clavados en mí. Yo acelero el paso, como si llegara tarde a donde nadie me está esperando. Prologado por Roger Wolfe.