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The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the
Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17,
1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon
a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from
office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of
prosecutors, Nixon returned to California, uncontrite and
unconvicted, convinced that time would exonerate him of any
wrongdoing and certain that history would remember his great
accomplishments--the opening of China and the winding down of the
Vietnam War--and forget his "mistake," the "pipsqueak thing" called
Watergate. "From the Hardcover edition."
A suspenseful narrative and spiritive rendition of the life of Galileo.
As millennium fever mounts, doomsayers once again prophesize that the end of the world is near. The last time the world faced the end of the millennium, it was a chaotic turning point in European history, flavored with a nearly magical sensibility of an apocalyptic age. In "The Last Apocalypse", James Reston, Jr., shows us in rich, vivid historical detail the last time the world faced the end of the millennium. Cataclysmic changes and widespread upheaval marked the decades around A.D. 1000, much as change continues to rock our world today. The old order was crumbling anti confusing new ideas were gaining hold. Random violence end the bloody victories by the Vikings, Magyars, and Moors convinced many Europeans the apocalypse was upon them. And then, the tide turned -- the Viking gods were dethroned, the shamans of the Magyars massacred, the glorious Moorish caliphate disintegrated, and, finally, the sign of the cross held sway from Spain to Russia. James Reston, Jr.'s enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, Conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance the turn of the last millennium brings to life unforgettable historical characters who embodied the struggle for the soul of Europe.
A bestselling historian recounts sixteen years that shook the
world- the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that
ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna
This is the epic story of the battle for the Holy Land, and the two opposing warriors at its centre: legendary crusader Richard the Lionheart, and Sultan Saladin, iconic hero of the Islamic world. Richard Plantagenet, commonly depicted as a romantic figure, emerges here in all his dark complexity at the head of the blood-soaked Crusades. Likewise Reston offers a compelling portrait of Salah ad-Din, a wise and cultured Sunni Muslim whose recapture of Jerusalem in 1187 set the stage for his mighty clash with the forces of Christian Europe. 'This book is a timely reminder that (we must hope) George Bush didn't know what he was talking about when he uttered the infamous 'c' word after September 11. For the crusades were among the most disgusting blots on the human record, the men who embarked on them doing so in the name of their god, also known as the Prince of Peace; and they, too, thought they were defending the only civilisation on earth.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian
From the acclaimed author of "Warriors of God" comes a riveting
account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political
ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward
international conquest changed the world forever.
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