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By Ryszard Kapuściński. 2010
À travers ce recueil posthume inédit en France, le grand reporter montre le visage du journaliste engagé. Son regard se…
porte sur trois points chauds du globe dans les années 1970 : Moyen-Orient, Amérique du Sud et Afrique. Comme toujours chez Kapuscinski, l'écriture est précise, intelligente, et le propos férocement actuel. Décrivant des mouvements partisans ou révolutionnaires, le reporter s'attache chaque fois à un destin particulier pour dresser un tableau politique plus général. Mais ce qui frappe surtout, c'est l'engagement du journaliste, sa capacité à s'insurger. Le monde qu'il peint est absurde, cynique, la violence y est omniprésente, la démocratie y est un paravent à toutes les hypocrisies favorisant l'esclavage, la répression, le crime... -- 4e de couvBy Cassidy Hutchinson. 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history.…
Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House. Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one of the most extraordinary and unprecedented calamities in modern political history. Hutchinson was faced with a choice between loyalty to the Trump administration or loyalty to the country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic election. She bravely came forward to become the pivotal witness in the House January 6 investigations, as her testimony transfixed and stunned the nation. In her memoir, Hutchinson reveals the struggle between the pressures she confronted to toe the party line and the demands of the oath she swore to defend American democracy. Enough reaches far beyond the typical insider political account. It's the saga of a woman whose fierce determination helped her overcome childhood challenges to get her dream job, only to face a crisis of conscience—one that more senior White House aides tried to evade—and, in the process, find her voice and herself. This is a portrait of how the courage of one person can change the course of historyBy James Reston. 2008
Historian describes serving as adviser to British journalist David Frost for the 1977 televised interviews with former president Richard Nixon.…
Discusses using House Impeachment Committee evidence in Frost's interrogation guide for the Watergate portion of the broadcast, watched by forty-five million Americans. 2007By Edward Miguel, Deborah Chasman. 2009
Economist Miguel posits that economic and political gains have been made in Africa in the twenty-first century. Nine scholars and…
experts on Africa's economy discuss Miguel's optimistic assertion. They evaluate the stability of Africa's politics, clean-environment technologies, population growth, and more. 2009By Candice Millard. 2011
Chronicles the life of James A. Garfield (1831-1881), the twentieth American president. Highlights Garfield's rise from poverty to the Oval…
Office. Details the attack by deranged office-seeker Charles Guiteau and the medical care that killed Garfield despite the efforts of Alexander Graham Bell. Bestseller. 2011A radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in contemporary democracy, The Compassionate Imagination proposes a new Canadian…
Cultural Contract that re-humanizes our way of living together by tapping into the instincts for generosity and compassion that find their expression in art. Over the last forty years, the arts have been increasingly deemed unimportant to the creation of an educated workforce. Reflecting a broadly held political view that in a market-based economy the arts were "a frill," they were deemed "unnecessary" courses compared to sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But what kind of Canada might we make if we were to place art and culture at the heart of our mutual decision-making, and return the arts to a central position in our education, shifting to steam rather than stem? What might be possible if we integrate the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face? What impact would it have on the future shape of our democracy? It's time to find where the Compassionate Imagination can take usBy Gil Courtemanche. 2011
" [...] Cest à Camus que Gil Courtemanche emprunte cette idée du juste pour décrire la position quil veut être…
la sienne quand il aborde lactualité politique. Le juste , cest celui qui fait passer lhumanité avant les idées, les personnes avant les dogmes, politiques ou autres. Cest la position la plus pénible, la plus complexe, la plus vulnérable. Car le juste se retrouve avec de curieux compagnons quil naime pas nécessairement. Puis il est confronté à la douloureuse question de la responsabilité, de lintention criminelle des États ou des acteurs. Les chroniques sont suivies dun texte inédit sur lequel Gil Courtemanche travaillait au moment de son décès, le 19 août 2011 : LOdyssée de Youssef. Un texte dérangeant, émouvant sur le destin dun garçon fier et fort, le seul de son village à savoir lire et surtout à savoir sexprimer en français, que les Anciens ont choisi pour sauver son village, situé à une centaine de kilomètres de Niamey, la capitale du Niger, ravagé par la sécheresse. Youssef part donc vers lOccident, au risque de sa vie, non pas pour devenir riche, pour nous dérober nos emplois, mais pour gagner de largent qui sauvera son village. Youssef est un réfugié économique, ce texte raconte son odyssée." -- 4e de couvBy Liza Frulla. 2007
"Deux ex-femmes politiques que tout semble opposer, de la biographie aux choix politiques, conversent, s'affrontent en toute amitié et se…
racontent. Attentives au tumulte de notre temps, préoccupées par l'avenir, Louise Beaudoin, souverainiste indéfectible et passionnée, et Liza Frulla, fédéraliste pragmatique et convaincue, naviguent ici entre le sérieux et l'humour, le profond et le léger, sans jamais succomber à la langue de bois. [...] Regards croisés sur une amitié paradoxale, sur la place des femmes en politique, les grandes options nationales, l'environnement, les défis du vivre ensemble, les grandes joies et les blessures, sans oublier la séduction, les hommes de leur vie et les petits plaisirs de l'existence. La journaliste Danièle Bombardier se fait l'écho ici de leurs longues conversations dans toute la spontanéité et la fougue qui caractérisent ces deux femmes d'exception." -- 4e de couvBy Mathieu Bock-Côté. 2012
" Souverainistes, fédéralistes, lassés de ce débat? De gauche, de droite, ou ailleurs? Les idéologies auxquelles nous étions habitués semblent…
frappées de désuétude. Les Québécois ne savent plus exactement comment penser leur avenir collectif. Partout, un sentiment dimpuissance se propage, alimenté par un cynisme généralisé. Et un pessimisme mortifère gagne la conscience collective. Dans cet essai, Mathieu Bock-Côté décrypte la crise politique québécoise à la lumière des tendances historiques et sociologiques lourdes qui ont fait le Québec depuis cinquante ans... " -- 4e de couvBy Niccolò Machiavelli. 2008
A sixteenth-century treatise on political philosophy in which Florentine civil servant and thinker Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) describes acquiring, wielding, and…
maintaining political power. A 2007 translation by PEN Translation Prize winner Peter Constantine. 2007Writings of Gandhi (1869-1948) that state the principles of his philosophy of nonviolence (ahimsa) and nonviolent action (satyagraha), selected by…
Trappist monk Thomas Merton in 1965. Merton's introduction examines the foundations of Gandhi's universal truths and analyzes Gandhi's commitment to change through political action. Preface (2007) by Mark Kurlansky. 1964British historian traces the life of the thirty-second U.S. president--the only chief executive to serve more than two terms. Highlights…
Roosevelt's family history, his controversial concept of the New Deal for combating the Great Depression, and the 1941 entry of the country into World War II. 2003By Gwen Ifill. 2009
Editor and television pundit profiles the post-civil-rights generation of African American male politicians. Analyzes a trend in black politicians' abilities…
to successfully attract white support in local and state elections and Barack Obama's campaign for presidency. Discusses race-gender clashes, legacy politics, and up-and-coming elected officials. 2009By Fred Kaplan. 2008
Explores the life of Abraham Lincoln through the language of his writings. Posits that Lincoln's boyhood readings of Burns, Byron,…
Shakespeare, Aesop's fables, and the Bible shaped his ideas about liberty, love, and human nature and led to his use of clear, common speech to convey morality and democracy. 2008By Mellissa Fung. 2023
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read." —Louise Penny, author of…
A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novels Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko Haram In April 2014, the world awoke to the shocking news that the terrorist group Boko Haram had kidnapped nearly 300 school-aged girls and taken them deep into the forests of Nigeria. When veteran journalist Mellissa Fung travelled to Nigeria, she discovered that the scope of the kidnappings had been vastly under-reported. Hundreds—possibly thousands—more girls had been taken against their will and forced to become child brides to soldiers and leaders of Boko Haram. Some of the captives escaped and returned to their villages, many with children in tow. Most of these girls, still children themselves, were shunned by their former friends and family. Other girls have never been seen again. A former captive herself, Mellissa Fung has great empathy for the kidnapped girls. Taken by Taliban sympathizers in Afghanistan, Fung shared her experience in her number-one-bestselling book, Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity. During several visits to Nigeria over four years, she sat down with the girls and their families and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews, listening to horrific stories of capture, rape and torture, as well as escapes and excommunications. Fung tells the stories of Gambo, Asma'u, Zara and other girls taken by Boko Haram. She also portrays strong women fighting against the terrorist group in their own powerful ways: Aisha the Hunter, who moves stealthily into the forest, taking out Boko Haram with her faithful followers, and Mama Boko Haram, an Igbo woman who knows the fighters and those haunted by their experiences and fights to empty the forests of fighters and captives alike. This is raw, honest and heartbreaking storytelling at its bestBy Douglas Murray. 2022
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique? It…
is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn't we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia? It's not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations and human rights abusers hoping to distract from their own ongoing villainy. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the "America is a racist country" bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and "pro-justice" movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests. If the West is to survive, it must be defended. The War on the West is not only an incisive takedown of foolish anti-Western arguments but also a rigorous new apologetic for civilization itselfBy Alain Dubuc. 2008
"[...] Ce livre ne porte pas sur la souveraineté et il ne cherche pas à critiquer ce projet souverainiste, auquel…
adhèrent un grand nombre de Québécois, mais il analyse de façon lucide l'impasse du projet souverainiste et l'impasse politique dans laquelle se trouve le Québec. L'auteur décrit les effets pervers engendrés par le fait que le combat pour la souveraineté, parce qu'il n'aboutit pas, a cessé d'être un facteur de progrès, et qu'il est même devenu l'une des causes importantes de la résistance au changement dont souffre le Québec. À mes amis souverainistes est un prolongement de l'essai Éloge de la richesse, du même auteur. Il explore les façons d'aménager un cadre politique qui permettrait au Québec de créer cette richesse : redéployer nos priorités, reconnaître l'urgence des défis qui nous attendent et travailler ensemble. Ce livre insiste sur les convergences qui permettaient à des souverainistes et à des fédéralistes unis par leur désir de modernité de joindre leurs efforts, même si chacun garde ses rêves. Lettre à mes amis souverainistes est un livre polémique, mais aussi une démarche qui repose sur le dialogue et la recherche d'un consensus." -- 4e de couvBy Bill O'Reilly. 2008
Emmy Award-winning television commentator's autobiography, its title inspired by his third-grade teacher, a nun, who summed him up with the…
phrase. O'Reilly reminisces about his postwar working-class upbringing in Long Island, a Catholic-school education, his two years as a teacher, and his journalism career's start in 1970s Boston. Bestseller. 2008By Barton Gellman. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman details the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's office through interviews with…
Cheney's colleagues and critics. Discusses the war in Iraq, the interrogation of prisoners, domestic espionage, and Cheney's beliefs supporting a strong commander in chief. Bestseller. 2008By Heather Cox Richardson. 2007
History professor focuses on the formation of a middle class in post-Civil War America and asserts that its members defined…
the nation's identity at home and abroad for the next century and beyond. Highlights the era's sectional animosities, racial tensions, booming industrialization, suffragist activism, and westward expansion. 2007