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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.

In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.

He casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.

As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became its only modern-day founding father - as well as the nation's most mourned martyr.

In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Patriot is the unforgettable life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time.

'Mind-blowing ... one extraordinary read' EMILY MAITLIS
'Charisma and courage dazzle on every page' SUNDAY TIMES
'Brave and brilliant' GUARDIAN
'The greatest political figure of his generation' OBSERVER

Alexei Navalny's poisoning in 2020 by the Russian security services was a global news event. In 2024 he died in a brutal Arctic prison. He began writing Patriot whilst recovering from his poisoning; it ends with his secret prison diaries.

HUSBAND:
He was a beacon to millions and became the sole political threat to Vladimir Putin. This is his life in his own words: his political awakening, his marriage and beloved family, his total commitment to taking on a corrupt regime and his enduring love of Russia and its people.

PRISONER:
We witness his message of hope gain nationwide support, his many arrests and harassment, and the incredible attempt on his life. We understand why he felt he had to return to Russia. In prison, we feel the power of his unbreakable spirit and sense of humour.

PATRIOT:
Patriot is as dramatic as Navalny's life - and full of the passionate belief that good and freedom will prevail. It is an astonishingly positive account of a heroic life.

'Part memoir, part diary, a political manifesto, a darkly funny adieu' BEN MACINTYRE
'Patriot will be seen as a historic text' ECONOMIST
'A worthy testament to Navalny's courage, defiance and humour' FINANCIAL TIMES
'This book is a gospel' VANITY FAIR
'Inspiring, emboldening - a voice that will not be forgotten' NEW YORKER

** A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A WATERSTONES, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND EVENING STANDARD BEST BOOK OF 2024 * WINNER OF THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD FOR BEST BOOK BY A NON-PARLIAMENTARIAN * ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2024 **

(Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers, October 2024)

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\"[Henry Kissinger and American Power] effectively separates the man from the myths.\" --The Christian Science Monitor (Best Books of the Month)

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger--at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.

Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been one of America's most lavishly praised--and most reviled--public figures. He was hailed as a \"miracle worker\" for his peacemaking in the Middle East, pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union, negotiation of an end to the Vietnam War, and secret plan to open the United States to China. He was assailed from both the left and the right for his complicity in the pointless sacrifice of American and Vietnamese lives, indifference to human rights, and reliance on deception and intrigue. Was he a brilliant master strategist--the \"20th century's greatest 19th-century statesman\" (Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic)--or a cold-blooded monster who eroded America's moral standing for the sake of self-promotion?

In this masterfully researched biography, the renowned diplomatic historian Thomas A. Schwartz offers an authoritative and evenhanded answer to this question. While other biographers have engaged in hagiography or demonology, Schwartz takes a measured view of his subject. He recognizes Kissinger's important successes and insights into the foreign policy issues of his time, but also acknowledges his failures, his penchant for backbiting, and his reliance on ingratiating and fawning praise of the president as a source of his own power. Throughout, Schwartz stresses Kissinger's artful invention of himself as a celebrity diplomat and his domination of the medium of television news. He also notes Kissinger's sensitivity to domestic and partisan politics, complicating--and undermining--the image of the far-seeing statesman who stood above the squabbles of popular strife.

Rounded and textured, and rich with new insights into key dilemmas of American policy, Henry Kissinger and American Power is an essential guide to a man whose legacy is as complex as the last sixty years of U.S. history itself.

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Promise Me, America

by Joe Biden