The Accidental Prime Minister
The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh
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Sanjaya Baru
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When The Accidental Prime Minister was published in 2014, it created a storm and became the publishing sensation of the year. The Prime Minister’s Office called the book a work of "fiction", the press hailed it as a revelatory account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first term in UPA.
Written by Singh’s media adviser and trusted aide, the book describes Singh’s often troubled relations with his ministers, his cautious equation with Sonia Gandhi, and how he handled the big crises from managing the left to pushing through the nuclear deal. Insightful, acute, and packed with political anecdotes, The Accidental Prime Minister is one of the great insider accounts of Indian political life.
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- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 26 h y 35 m
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For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We Need Baker Now More Than Ever
- De @Gazi2a en 01-08-21
De: Peter Baker, y otros
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For the Record
- De: David Cameron
- Narrado por: David Cameron
- Duración: 29 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first outright Conservative majority for 23 years at the 2015 general election.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wish i did not read it first
- De Amazon Customer en 10-01-19
De: David Cameron
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The Ambassador
- Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
- De: Susan Ronald
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs a bit of editing
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-02-21
De: Susan Ronald
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A Promised Land
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 29 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 55,154
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47,636
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 47,285
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Color me grateful.
- De Angela en 11-19-20
De: Barack Obama
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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
- De: Tim Shipman
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 32 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Based on unrivalled access to all the key politicians and their advisors - including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Nigel Farage and Dominic Cummings, the mastermind of Vote Leave - Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller and offers a gripping day-by-day account of what really happened behind the scenes in Downing Street, both Leave campaigns, the Labour Party, Ukip and Britain Stronger in Europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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blow by blow, word by word
- De Christian R. Unger en 11-22-18
De: Tim Shipman
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31 Days
- The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today
- De: Barry Werth
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes listeners inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president", Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon's increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within the White House and the Republican Party, Nixon's resignation produced new fissures and battle lines and new opportunities for political advancement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The politics of 1974
- De D. Littman en 11-27-06
De: Barry Werth
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Landslide
- The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988
- De: Jane Mayer, Doyle McManus
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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The explosive tale of the unraveling of an American president. For six years, Ronald Reagan seemed invincible. But behind the glowing image of success was an administration courting disaster. In this spellbinding book, two top Washington reporters trace the origins of the Iran-Contra affair and the unraveling of the Reagan presidency, taking us deep inside a white house that cared more for stagecraft than statecraft and that mistook a landslide reelection for an unlimited mandate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great reporting
- De daisey en 09-03-23
De: Jane Mayer, y otros
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My Story
- De: Julia Gillard
- Narrado por: Julia Gillard, Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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"I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three days for you to judge." On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia's 27th prime minister, and our first female leader.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
- De Michael en 10-11-16
De: Julia Gillard
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The Last Empire
- The Final Days of the Soviet Union
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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On Christmas, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: Earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades. As Serhii Plokhy reveals, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the US.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Full of Holes; Horrid Narrator
- De Donald en 03-02-23
De: Serhii Plokhy
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The Education of an Idealist
- A Memoir
- De: Samantha Power
- Narrado por: Samantha Power
- Duración: 21 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,429
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,055
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sam's Power: Privilege in U.S. Politics
- De RelizzScholar27 en 11-09-19
De: Samantha Power
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How Ike Led
- The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
- De: Susan Eisenhower
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne, Susan Eisenhower
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, he was able to give our country eight years of peace and prosperity by relying on a core set of principles. These were informed by his heritage and upbringing, his strong character and his personal discipline, but he also avoided making himself the center of things. He tried to be the calmest man in the room, not the loudest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A President of the UNITED States
- De Happy Doc en 09-10-20
De: Susan Eisenhower
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Kissinger
- A Biography
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 30 m
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By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A dissapointment
- De Mike From Mesa en 12-16-13
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Chancellor
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 716
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Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, entering politics only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West. In this “masterpiece of discernment and insight” (The New York Times Book Review), acclaimed biographer Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of Merkel’s unlikely ascent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a remarkable leader in these trying times!
- De Doug Easterling en 11-30-21
De: Kati Marton
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Counselor
- A Life at the Edge of History
- De: Ted Sorensen
- Narrado por: Ted Sorensen
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor, recounts in full, for the first time, his experience counseling Kennedy through some of the most dramatic moments in American history. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor, the young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book Profiles in Courage. Sorensen encouraged the junior senator's political ambitions and was later named special counsel to the president.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rare Insight
- De Robert en 05-10-08
De: Ted Sorensen
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All the Kremlin's Men
- Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
- De: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted - if not controlled - by the men who at once advise and deceive him. The regional governors and bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enough with the Russian accents!
- De Emma Jane Top en 12-17-17
De: Mikhail Zygar
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The Promise
- President Obama, Year One
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Jonathan Alter
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama’s historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Tiresome
- De Matthew en 05-21-10
De: Jonathan Alter
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- Naveen Ratnani
- 10-02-20
well written.must read for every Indian
great book to understand relationship between congress and pm manmohan singh and Indian political landscape.Also touches on relationships with world powers
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