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The book that inspired the major new motion picture "Mandela: Long
Walk to Freedom."
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of
our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the
fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel
Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant
release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment,
Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring
political drama in the world. As president of the African National
Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was
instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and
majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the
fight for human rights and racial equality.
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography,
destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's
greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla
Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of
struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the
founding father who made America modern and became the toast of
Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander
Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to
American history, including his unsung role as an early
abolitionist. An immigrant from the West Indies, he played a
crucial part in the political, legal and economic development of
the new nation: He served as Washington's right-hand man during the
Revolutionary War; he helped establish the Constitution; he wrote
most of 'The Federalist Papers'; and he modernized America's
fledgling finances, among other notable achievements. Noted
Hamilton scholar and chairman of the Museum of American Finance,
Richard Sylla, brings the flesh-and-blood man - the student,
soldier, lawyer, political scientist, finance minister and
politician - to life and reveals captivating details of his private
life, as well as his infamous demise at the hands of Vice President
Aaron Burr.
A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner,
and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat,
scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most
prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The first
African American to obtain a political science Ph.D. from Harvard
and a celebrated diplomat at the United Nations, he was once so
famous he handed out the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Yet
today Ralph Bunche is largely forgotten. In The Absolutely
Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala restores Bunche to his rightful
place in history. He shows that Bunche was not only a singular
figure in midcentury America; he was also one of the key architects
of the postwar international order. Raustiala tells the story of
Bunche's dramatic life, from his early years in prewar Los Angeles
to UCLA, Harvard, the State Department, and the heights of global
diplomacy at the United Nations. After narrowly avoiding
assassination Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his
ground-breaking mediation of the first Arab-Israeli conflict,
catapulting him to popular fame. A central player in some of the
most dramatic crises of the Cold War, he pioneered conflict
management and peacekeeping at the UN. But as Raustiala argues, his
most enduring achievement was his work to dismantle European
empire. Bunche perceptively saw colonialism as the central issue of
the 20th century and decolonization as a project of global racial
justice. From marching with Martin Luther King to advising
presidents and prime ministers, Ralph Bunche shaped our world in
lasting ways. This definitive biography gives him his due. It also
reminds us that postwar decolonization not only fundamentally
transformed world politics, but also powerfully intersected with
America's own civil rights struggle.
Italy, Summer 1944
A unit of German soldiers arrives at a villa near Florence. Villa Il
Focardo is home to Robert Einstein, cousin to the most famous scientist
in the world, Albert Einstein – a prominent enemy of the Nazi regime.
Having renounced his German citizenship a decade earlier, Albert’s
safely in America, well beyond Hitler’s reach.
The same is not true for his cousin.
Twelve hours after arriving, the soldiers have vanished – and a family
is dead. This crime – and what happened next – still haunts those who
survived.
Who ordered it? Who was involved?
And why did they get away with it?
This is the untold story of the Einstein vendetta.
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just
steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a
seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating,
and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under
an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality
of war -- and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime --
aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the
Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
In May 1945, an eleven-year-old Hunt watched American troops
occupy Hitler's mountain retreat, signaling the end of the Nazi
dictatorship and World War II. As the Nazi crimes began to be
accounted for, many Germans tried to deny the truth of what had
occurred; Hunt, in contrast, was determined to know and face the
facts of her country's criminal past.
On Hitler's Mountain is more than a memoir -- it is a portrait
of a nation that lost its moral compass. It is a provocative story
of a family and a community in a period and location in history
that, though it is fast becoming remote to us, has important
resonance for our own time.
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