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Author | : Michael Dobbs |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385350090 |
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ONE OF USA TODAY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president—from the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight. In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. He enjoyed an almost 70 percent approval rating. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called “a full-blown cancer.” King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate conspiracy unraveled as the burglars and their handlers turned on one another, exposing the crimes of a vengeful president. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the heart of the conspiracy, recreating these traumatic events in cinematic detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the noose tightens around them. We eavesdrop on Nixon plotting with his aides, raging at his enemies, while also finding time for affectionate moments with his family. The result is an unprecedentedly vivid, close-up portrait of a president facing his greatest crisis. Central to the spellbinding drama is the tortured personality of Nixon himself, a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all costs, become his fatal flaws. Rising from poverty to become the most powerful man in the world, he commits terrible errors of judgment that lead to his public disgrace. He makes himself—and then destroys himself. Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, King Richard is an epic, deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.
Author | : W. B. Bartlett |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144566271X |
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The amazing life of Richard I, King of England, known to history as 'Richard the Lionheart', after his reputation for bravery exhibited fighting the 'Saracens' whilst crusading in the Holy Land.
Author | : Jean Flori |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : 9780748620470 |
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Examines both Richard's role as prince and king in history, and also analyses the different and sometimes controversial elements which, for the chroniclers of his day, helped to make Richard a true model of chivalry
Author | : Frank McLynn |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1446449254 |
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Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? In this sweeping narrative, celebrated historian Frank McLynn turns the tables on modern revisionist historians and shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were - crusading, fighting vicious wars in France, negotiating with the papacy, engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue, often against each other: in Richard's case, even holding the kingdom together when fighting in the Holy Land; and in John's, losing Normandy, catastrophically agonising the barons over Magna Carta and losing the Crown Jewels in the Wash.
Author | : Saint Thomas More |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Jacob Abbott |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040621027 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1597 |
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Author | : Jacob Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Author | : Jacob Abbott |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1605208167 |
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Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered what we would now call "young adult" literature, this collection, first published between 1848 and 1871, was designed to present a clear, distinct, connected narrative of the lives of the great figures of world history, those people who have been most influential, at least as American author and educator JACOB ABBOTT (1803-1879) saw it from his 19th-century perspective. Wildly popular and republished many times under different collected names, this replica set mimics the 1904 reprint known as the "Makers of History" series. It will delight students of history as well as show the scholar how history telling has changed over the last few centuries. More than 30 other volumes in the series are also available from Cosimo Classics. This volume, dating from 1858, covers English king Richard III (1452-1485), from his childhood and ascension to the throne through the downfalls of York and Lancaster, the scandal of the princes in the Tower, and much more.