This unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of postcommunist Albania. After the world's most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism, many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to invest in socalled 'pyramid schemes'. At the start of 1997, these pyramids crumbled one after another causing widespread demonstrations and protests. The confli ...
This book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so large for Humphrey as vice president from 1964 through the 1968 election campaign against Richard Nixon. It assesses how Humphrey’s loyalty to Lyndon B. Johnson, who emerges as the villain of the story in many ways, would negatively affect his political ambitions. And it engages the disconnect between Humphrey’s principles and the intricate politics of his convoluted relationsh ...
England zur Tudor-Zeit: Als Sekretar und erster Minister von Konig Henry VIII. hat Thomas Cromwell 1535 den Zenit seiner Macht erreicht. Er ist zusammen mit der neuen Konigin Anne Boleyn aufgestiegen. Nun wartet ganz England ungeduldig auf die Geburt eines mannlichen Erben. Doch Anne Boleyn vermag dem Konig keinen Thronfolger zu schenken und henry verliebt sich in die schuchterne Jane Seymour. Erneut liegen die Geschicke Englands in Thomas Cromw ...
In Brooklyn in 1899, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician-the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias-of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder-for it must be murder-and confront t ...
