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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for...

From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders. It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American...

The market offers a wide variety of publications describing alternate political realities. I cannot thank you enough for choosing this one.

Die Bundeskanzlerin ist nicht unumstritten und vielleicht gerade deswegen so beliebt und ausharrend im Amt. Ihren politischen Ziehvater jedenfalls hat sie an Beständigkeit schon bald überdauert, wenn ihr die jüngste Krise nicht noch Steine in den Weg legt, über die sie böse stolpern kann. Doch es ist nicht die Erste, derer sie bislang schon so manche überstanden hat. Mehr schlecht als recht, sagen manche, besser als jeder andere ihre Befürworter.

Er ist der mächtigste Mann in der Türkei, sein Einfluss macht sich verstärkt in letzter Zeit auch über deren Grenzen hinaus geltend. Ein spitzzüngiger Spötter hat es ihm mit seiner Schmähung angetan. Daraus ist ein diplomatischer Zwischenfall geworden, ja eine Staatsaffäre. Jahrelang hat man sich um Aufnahme in die EU bemüht, durch die Auswirkungen der Flüchtlingskrise gewinnen Argumente dafür ein anderes Gewicht.

George Washington was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who worked as the nation's first president from 1789 to 1797. Washington was called leader of the Continental Army by the Continental Congress, and he led the Patriot forces to triumph in the American Revolutionary War.

Although one can speak of Thomas Jefferson in a tediously factual way, he was an enigma. Historically, he is noted for writing the Declaration of Independence, which was a daring and courageous statement of the rights of Americans and, indeed, of all people. Hidden beneath the many cloaks of legalistic terminologies that he was fond of using, all the strengths and vulnerabilities of Jefferson as a man were there, too. Like many people of today, he had a difficult childhood. He also liked to party while in college and loved to play the fiddle.

This story is for all those who have ever wanted to see President Obama in person but couldn't. It tells what it was actually like to be there among the 50,000 or so other people that day, March 7, 2015, when the first black president of the United States of America came to speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.