Die einzigartige Karriere des Mannes mit dem Hut – UDO LINDENBERG – jetzt erstmals als Audiostory. Ein lebendig erzahltes Feature mit exklusiven Interviews, in denen Zeitzeugen verraten, wie aus dem Nachwuchs-Trommler aus Gronau einer der erfolgreichsten Sanger Deutschlands wurde. Mit Mitte 20 spielt Lindenberg noch als Drummer bei Klaus Doldingers Jazz-Projekt Passport – wenige Jahre spater hat er sein eigenes Genre manifestiert: Panik-Rock. Au ...
Wien, kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Julian Passauer ist ein «flei?iger Taugenichts». Der Sohn des Stellvertretenden Direktors des Kunsthistorischen Museums wachst im Dachgeschoss von Schloss Schonbrunn umgeben von skurrilen Typen auf. Vaters lebenslange Sehnsucht nach dem Suden setzt sich in Julian fort. Auf einer einjahrigen Schiffsreise umrundet er Afrika, er beginnt ein Studium, bricht es ab und wird schlie?lich professioneller Pokerspiele ...
Maggie was only 13 years old when the Anglo-Boer War broke out and irrevocably changed her life. After months of house arrest in the family’s home in Heidelberg in the Transvaal, Maggie, her mother and younger siblings are sent to a concentration camp in Natal. In the camp, they experience hunger, deprivation and loss, but also surprising acts of kindness from some British soldiers. This very personal account tells a story of hardship, but also ...
Prior to the real-estate boom of the 1980s, Francis J. Greenburger risked it all to buy three older loft buildings at 50 West Street near the current 9/11 Memorial. He ultimately dreamed of one day erecting a magnificent skyscraper in their place. But disaster struck in 2008, just as his plans were coming together, and development came to a screeching halt. The global financial crisis had made the land practically worthless and it would be years ...
Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’ longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called “Middle-Class Joe” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party’s rightward turn, ushering in the end of the liberal New Deal order and enabling the political takeover of the radical right. Far from being a libera ...
The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is not just the tale of the first man from a developing country to ever reach the top of the Forbes list of billionaires. It is the story of a character who represents the neoliberal mentality of our times, who mistrusts politicians, believes that the market is the most efficient mechanism for everything (even to combat corruption), and sees philanthropy as a social investment ...
The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner “If you didn’t know whether to risk doing something, what’s the worst that could happen? ‘So they call you pisher!’” In this humorous and moving memoir, Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. Born in the North London suburbs, his parents, Harold and Connie, both teachers, first met as teenage Communists in the 1930s Jewish East End. The famil ...
Hugo Chavez’s extraordinary story—in his own words One of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century, Hugo Chavez was a military officer who became a left-wing revolutionary. This book tells the story of his life until the moment he was elected President in 1998. His energy and charisma shine throughout the riveting and historically important story of his early years, describing how he slowly uncovered the reality of ...
