A biography of the presidential candidate discusses his childhood, his early political ambitions, his rise in politics, and controversies surrounding his past, and includes extensive interviews with Clinton and his wife
In The Downing Street Years Margaret Thatcher gave her own account of her prime ministership from 1979 to 1990. Now, in The Path to Power, she writes for the first time about her personal life, about the formation of her character and values, and about the training and experiences which led to the 1979 election victory.
It is not my purpose in this memoir to instill feelings of hostility in Americans toward the Soviet people, or to complicate in any way efforts to promote peace. The world has enought madmen trying to do that.
I was tired after six and one-half tumultuous years, and I felt that memoirs couldeasily be self-serving. Turn over the documents to the historians, I thought. Soon my energy returned and, as I looked into my record, I felt a renewed sense of excitement about what had happaned on my watch, and a desire to set out the flow of events as they appeared from my own point of view.
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor…
Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics — one built on the shared understanding that unites us as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, candidly candid about his family life and time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political beliefs and inspires us to believe in the steady optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope g…
Now that he is a private citizen, I still cover him from time to time because his voice and opinions still carry a strong weight as a senior statesman. My coverage of him during the war in Mindanao in the 1970s and 1980s was full of adventure and danger. At times I found myself riding planes and helicopters over rebel territories. In some instances, I clambered up armored vehicles and trudged t…
Dr. (HC) Martha Tilaar adalah sebuah nama yang sudah sangat terkenal di tanah air. Nama ini pada mulanya identik dengan brand kosmetik terkenal, Sari Ayu, yang kemudian berkembang menjadi beragam produk yang tak kurang terkenalnya. la memimpin pabrik dengan 3000 pekerja di dalamnya. Perjalanan panjang Martha dalam meraih semua itu pun dimulai sejak kecil. Karena ia adalah anak yang sakit-sakita…
Once described by menzies as 'the boy delinquent from Queensland', Bill Hayden is widely considered today to be the best man never to have become prime minister of Australia. This is the insightful and revealing chronicle of Bill Hayden's life and career: from Queensland copper to labor politician, from leader of the opposotion to governor-general of Australia.
From his controversial coverage of Vietnam, which incurred the wrath of President Johnson but won him a Pulitzer Prize, to his unforgettable and daring on-the-ground reporting of the Gulf War during one of the greatest airborne assaults in history, Peter Arnett has established himself as the leading voice of American war reportage. In Live from the Battlefield, one of the most highly celebrated…