Название: Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Автор: Adam Zamoyski
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 88 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator? While he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man and, as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct. A brilliant tactician, he was no strategist.

Название: Garbo
Автор: Robert Gottlieb
Издательство: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 178 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world’s subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the world―and that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessed―was rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe’s. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naïve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the world’s most famous actress.

Название: Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
Автор: Brian Boeck
Издательство: Pegasus Books
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 39 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov's epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin's Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union's most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia's archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov's official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions.

Название: His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Автор: Jonathan Alter
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 39 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From one of America’s most-respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure—ridiculed and later revered—with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people.

Название: Генерал де Голль и Россия
Автор: Элен Каррер д’Анкосс
Язык: русский
Издательство: Политическая энциклопедия
Год: 2019
Страниц: 199
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,3 Мб

Россия и Франция, близкие друг другу страны, объединенные осознанием общности своих интересов и исторических судеб, это постоянные составляющие философии генерала де Голля, который лучше кого бы то ни было понимал значение для его родины этой союзницы в тылу. Неслучайно в 1965 году генерал констатировал: «Наш упадок начался с войны Наполеона с Россией». В новой книге известного французского историка Э. Каррер д’Анкосс повествуется о том, как де Голль реализовывал на практике свое видение России в различные периоды франко-советских отношений, взаимодействуя последовательно со Сталиным, Хрущевым и Брежневым.

Название: JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
Автор: Fredrik Logevall
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 54 Мб
Язык: английский / English

By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston's wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while hagiographic portrayals of his dazzling charisma, reports of his extramarital affairs, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death, these accounts all fail to capture the full person.

Название: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Автор: Heather Clark
Издательство: Vintage
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 126 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Drawing on a wealth of new material, Heather Clark brings to life the great and tragic poet, Sylvia Plath. Refusing to read Plath's work as if her every act was a harbinger of her fate, Clark evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century as she thoroughly explores Sylvia's world. We see Plath's early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; we witness her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and, through clear-eyed portraits of the demonised players in the arena of her suicide, we gain a deeper understanding of her final days. Featuring illuminating readings of Plath's poems, Red Comet brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women the world over.

Название: Айвазовский (ЖЗЛ)
Автор: Скоробогачева Е.
Издательство: Молодая гвардия
Год: 2021
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 368
Размер: 20 mb
Язык: Русский

Иван Константинович Айвазовский - всемирно известный маринист, представитель "золотого века" отечественной культуры, снискавший громкую мировую славу. Автор около шести тысяч произведений, участник более ста двадцати выставок, кавалер многих российских и иностранных орденов, он находил время и для обширной общественной, просветительской, благотворительной деятельности.

Название: Полудержавный властелин
Автор: Павленко Н.И.
Издательство: М.: Политиздат
Год: 1991
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 422
Размер: 11 mb
Язык: Русский

Известному ученому, исследователю Петра I Николаю Ивановичу Павленко принадлежит пользующиеся большой популярностью у читателей исторические повествования "Петр Первый", "Птенцы гнезда Петрова", "Александр Данилович Меньшиков". Предлагаемая читателю историческая хроника "Полудержавный властелин" содержит новое расширенное повествование о судьбе любимца Петра I - Меньшикове, об эпохе, сформировавшей этот недюжинный и противоречивый характер, о хитросплетенных человеческих судьбах и политических интриг.

Название: True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Автор: Abraham Riesman
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 23 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy.