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Amerikaanse politiek, Memoir

Gretchen Whitmer – True Gretch

Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch recensie, review en informatie boek en memoir van de Amerikaanse Democratisch politicus en gouverneur van Michigan. Op 9 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het autobiografische boek van Gretchen Whitmer. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch recensie en review

  • “Whether it’s confronting the patriarchy, domestic terrorist threats, or the perils of orthodontia, Governor Whitmer does so with grace, candor and a big dose of humor…Vulnerable with a side of gallows humor, True Gretch reads like you’ve got a seat at the table with the Governor and you just agreed to buy another round of Oberon.” (Jordan Klepper, The Daily Show)
  • “As someone who has been long committed to non-blurbing, this wonderful and, yes, exquisitely wacky how-to-be-a-shark-MF guide by That Woman from Michigan is a must read for badass ladies everywhere and anyone who aspires to be one. I laughed, I cried and now, god help me, I am a happy Half-Whit. (Also, sorry Big Gretch, but my UMich son requires it: Go Blue!)” (Kara Swisher)
  • “Getting to know Gretchen through this book was exhilarating. She uses humor as her superpower to tackle challenges that would knock out most. I am just amazed and inspired by her wit and grace. G, you really are a Wonder Woman!” (Lynda Carter, actor and singer-songwriter)

Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch

True Gretch

What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

  • Schrijfster: Gretchen Whitmer (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 9 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $26.99 / $12.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Gretchen Whitmer, de gouverneur van Michigan

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot.

When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good in other people. “Even the meanest person might have pretty eyes,” she would say. Nino’s words persuaded Whitmer to look for the good in any person or situation—just one of many colorful personal experiences that have shaped her political vision. (And, as Whitmer writes, one that resonated more than another piece of advice her grandmother offered, to “never part your hair in the middle.”)

In this candid and inspiring book, Whitmer reveals the principles and instincts that have shaped her extraordinary career, from her early days as a lawyer and legislator and her 2018 election as governor of Michigan, to her bold and innovative actions as she led the state through a series of unprecedented crises. Her motto in politics, she writes, is to “get shit done.”

Whitmer shares the lessons in resilience that steered her through some of the most challenging events in Michigan’s history, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, a five-hundred-year flood, the rise of domestic terrorism, and the fierce fight to protect reproductive rights.

Along the way, she tells stories about the outsize characters in her family, her lifelong clumsy streak, the wild comments she’s heard on the campaign trail, her self-deprecating social media campaigns (including her star turn as a talking potato with lipstick), and the slyly funny tactics she deploys to neutralize her opponents.

Written with Whitmer’s trademark sense of humor and straight-shooting style, True Gretch is not only a compelling account of her remarkable journey, but also a blueprint for anyone who wants to make a difference in their community, their country, or the world. It is a testament to the power of humor, perseverance, and compassion in the face of darkness.

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Jen Psaki – Say More

Jen Psaki Say More recensie en informatie boek van de White House Press Secretary onder Barack Obama en huidige MSNBC host. Op 7 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de memoir van Jen Psaki. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jen Psaki Say More recensie

Wanneer er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnen van Say More, het boek van Jen Psaki, dan besteed onze redactie er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Psaki’s memoir of swimming in the deep end of the world’s most analyzed press pool is as forthright and reassuring as her behind-the-podium personae. The lessons she shares with readers often landed first with her toughest audience, her children. It is precisely this balance of political and journalistic strategies and general life advice that elevates Psaki’s narrative beyond the standard Washington insider tell-all. A helpful resource for anyone who knows how much words matter.” (Booklist)
  • “Psaki combines the personal and the professional in her enjoyable debut . . . Sprinkled throughout are self-deprecating jabs that highlight her own occasional blunders . . . Such levity helps the book breeze by. Readers need not be political obsessives to appreciate the practical wisdom on offer here.” (Publishers Weekly)

Jen Psaki Say More

Say More

Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

  • Auteur: Jen Psaki (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 7 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de voormalige White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation.

Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation’s interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her ability to break through the noise and successfully deliver her message. In her highly anticipated book, Psaki shares her journey to the Briefing Room and beyond, taking readers along the campaign trail, to the State Department, and inside the White House under two Presidents. With her signature wit, Psaki writes about reporting to bosses from the hot-tempered Rahm Emanuel to the coolly intellectual Barack Obama to the surprisingly tenderhearted John Kerry. She also talks about her time working closely with President Joe Biden from the start of his administration to set a new tone for the country, restoring a sense of calm and respect for the role of the media in our Democracy.

Since leaving the White House, Psaki’s star has continued to rise. She launched a highly rated show on MSNBC and was so successful that in just six months she was given an additional primetime Monday slot, ahead of Rachel Maddow. And Psaki’s work doesn’t end at the office. She is the mother of two young children and shares her stories about the journey of communicating as a parent: During one bedtime briefing, her young daughter asked the question, “Why do wars start?”, which Jen carefully explained and then got a follow up: “Have you ever seen a unicorn?”

In Say More, Psaki explains her straightforward approach to communication, walking readers through difficult conversations as well as moments where humor saves the day—whether it is with preschoolers, partners, or presidents. She addresses the best ways to give and receive feedback, how to connect with your audience, how to listen actively, and much more. Say More is the book Psaki wishes she had when she started her career, and is a trove of entertaining, essential lessons from one of the most prominent voices in American politics today.

Jen Psaki is the host of MSNBC’s Sunday afternoon and Monday evening program, Inside with Jen Psaki. She served as the thirty-fourth White House Press Secretary under President Biden until May 2022. Over the course of her twenty years in public service, Psaki also served as White House Communications Director under President Obama, as the spokesperson for the State Department under then Secretary of State John Kerry, and worked on three presidential campaigns. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children.

Jen Psaki (1 december 1978, Stamford, Connecticut) is the host of MSNBC’s Sunday afternoon and Monday evening program, Inside with Jen Psaki. She served as the thirty-fourth White House Press Secretary under President Biden until May 2022. Over the course of her twenty years in public service, Psaki also served as White House Communications Director under President Obama, as the spokesperson for the State Department under then Secretary of State John Kerry, and worked on three presidential campaigns. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children.

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Amerikaanse politiek

Carlos Lozada – The Washington Book

Carlos Lozada The Washington Book recensie en informatie boek over hoe machtige Amerikaanse politici zich uiten in boeken en geschriften. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster, The Washington Book, het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse columnist en politiek journalist Carlos Lozada. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Carlos Lozada The Washington Book recensie

  • “An absolutely original genius.” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post)
  • “Lozada’s strengths as a critic are obvious. He is charming, funny, and light on his feet, and his descriptions are exceptionally clear and pithy. . . . This aphoristic style cuts to the quick of complex ideas.” (Katy Waldman, The New Yorker)
  • “Lozada’s insights are piquant and enlightening, the result being an enhanced understanding of the complicated mess that is American politics.” (Booklist)

Carlos Lozada The Washington Book

The Washington Book

  • Auteur: Carlos Lozada (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse politiek van Carlos Lozada

The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation.

As a long-time book critic and columnist in Washington, Carlos Lozada dissects all manner of texts: commission reports, political reporting, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional inquiries to understand the controversies animating life in the capital. He also reads copious books by politicians and top officials: tell-all accounts by administration insiders, campaign biographies by candidates longing for high office, revisionist memoirs by those leaving those offices behind. With this provocative essay collection, Lozada argues that no matter how carefully political figures sanitize their experiences, positions, and records, no matter how diligently they present themselves in the best and safest and most electable light, they almost always let slip the truth. They show us their faults and blind spots, their ambitions and compromises, their underlying motives and insecurities. Whether they mean to or not, they tell us who they really are.

In his memoirs and speeches, Barack Obama constantly invoked the power and meaning of his life story, Lozada notes, a sign of how the former president capitalized on his personal symbolism, trying to transform it from inspiration on the campaign trail into an all-purpose governing tool. In a soliloquy about his hair in a self-help book published two decades ago, Donald Trump revealed not just his vanity, Lozada explains, but his utter isolation from the world, long before he entered the bubble of the White House. In deft and lacerating prose, Lozada interprets the unresolved tensions of Hillary Clinton’s ideological beliefs. He imagines the wonderful memoir George H.W. Bush could have given us but instead left scattered in throughout various books and letters. He explores why Kamala Harris has struggled to carve out a distinctive role as vice president. He explains how Ron DeSantis’s pitch to America is just a list of enemies. And he even glimpses what Vladimir Putin fears the most, and why he seeks conflict with the West. He does so all through their own books, and their own words.

Lozada reads these books so you don’t have to. The Washington Book is the perfect guide to the state of our politics, and then men and women who dominate the terrain. It explores the construction of personal identity, the delusions of leadership, and that mix of subservience and ambition that can define a life in politics. The more we read the stories of Washington, Lozada contends, the clearer our understanding of the competing visions of our country.

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Frans Verhagen – De Amerikaanse president

Frans Verhagen De Amerikaanse president recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van het machtigste ambt ter wereld. Op 7 maart 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Boom het boek De Amerikaanse president, geschreven door de Nederlandse journalist, historicus en Amerika-kenner Frans Verhagen. Hier leest je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Frans Verhagen De Amerikaanse president recensie

Als er een boekbespreking en recensie verschijnt in de media van het boek over de Amerikaanse president, geschreven door Frans Verhagen, zullen we er op deze pagina aandacht aan besteden.

Frans Verhagen De Amerikaanse president

De Amerikaanse president

Geschiedenis van het machtigste ambt ter wereld

  • Auteur: Frans Verhagen (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Uitgever: Boom
  • Verschijnt:  7 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 42,90
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse presidenten van Frans Verhagen

De Amerikaanse president is de machtigste mens ter wereld. Dat verklaart voor een belangrijk deel de fascinatie voor de persoon die dit ambt bekleedt en voor de verkiezingscampagnes om het Witte Huis te bereiken. De Amerikaanse verkiezingen zijn altijd interessant en hebben vaak onverwachte resultaten. Waaraan ontleent de Amerikaanse president zijn macht? Wat mag hij wel, en wat kan hij niet? Hoe verhoudt hij zich tot het Congres en het Hooggerechtshof? Wat voor mensen hebben dit ambt eerder bekleed? Wat maakte hen tot een succes of deed hen mislukken? Wat is de positie van de vicepresident, en wat die van de first lady? En wat is het verhaal achter het Witte Huis?

Een ambt dat de hele wereld aangaat

Amerikakenner Frans Verhagen, auteur van het vooraanstaande overzichtswerk Geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten, geeft context en achtergrond bij een ambt dat de hele wereld aangaat. Hij verbindt het verhaal van het ambt van president met de personen die dit ambt reeds bekleedden en met de Amerikaanse verkiezingen. De Amerikaanse president is een boeiend naslagwerk in een jaar waarin er meer dan ooit op het spel staat in de belangrijkste democratie van de wereld.

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Chris Christie – What Would Reagan Do?

Chris Christie What Would Reagan Do?. Op 6 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Threshold Editions het boek over president Ronald Reagan geschreven door Amerikaanse Republikeinse politicus Chris Christie in samenwerking met Ellis Henican. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Chris Christie What Would Reagan Do? recensie

Als er boekbesprekingen en recensies verschijnen in de media van het boek over president Ronald Reagan, geschreven door Chris Christie, kun je er hier over lezen.

Chris Christie informatie

Chris Christie is geboren op 6 september 1962 in Newark, New Jersey in de Verenigde Staten. Van 19 januari 2010 tot 16 januari 2018 was hij Gouverneur van New Jersey namens de Rupublikeinse Partij. In 2016 deed hij een gooi naar het presidentschap maar nadat hij bij de voorverkiezingen in New Jersey maar zeven procent van de stemmen behaalde, trok hij zich terug.

Chris Christie What Would Reagan Do

What Would Reagan Do?

Life Lessons from the Last Great President

  • Auteur: Chris Christie, Ellis Henican (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Threshold Editions
  • Verschijnt: 6 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over president Ronald Reagan

With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America’s last great president?

A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan’s character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines—finding plenty of compelling insights for our current national dysfunction.

In each chapter, Christie spells out a lesson from a different point in Reagan’s journey, then ties all those lessons to the national challenges of today.

When Reagan turned from Hollywood to politics, America was at another breaking point. The economy was battered. Trust in government was at an all-time low. US foreign policy was an embarrassment, and Western ideals were facing enormous challenges in the world, especially from the Russians and the Chinese.

Sound familiar? Enter a fading actor who would become the 40th president of the United States.

Countless books have been written about President Reagan’s strong conservative leadership. But Christie says few people fully appreciate the clarity of vision and subtle human relations skills that Reagan brought to the negotiating table and into the political realm. Reagan had a remarkable ability to find common ground across party lines—as Christie puts it, to “compromise without being compromised.” Building on lessons from his own hardscrabble upbringing, Reagan transformed the Republican Party and the political landscape forever.

Two decades after Reagan’s death, Christie shows how the life lessons of the beloved president are more alive than ever—and can restore American leadership again.

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Charlie Spiering – Amature Hour

Charlie Spiering Amature Hour boek over Kamala Harris. Op 23 jnauri 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Threshold Editions het boek over vicepresident Kamala Harriss in het Witte Huis, geschreven door de Amerikaanse journalist Charlie Spiering. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Charlie Spiering Amature Hour recensie

  • “With skillful storytelling, Charlie Spiering shows us how a San Francisco gadfly cackled all the way to the White House.” (Charles Hurt, The Washington Times)
  • “The ascendency of Kamala Harris to the vice presidency is a tragic tale of power, scandal, and incompetence. Charlie Spiering fearlessly reveals the real Kamala Harris in a carefully researched book that is both shocking and hilarious.” (Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist)

Charlie Spiering boeken en informatie

Charlie Spiering is een Amerikaanse journalist. Hij werkte voor Washington Post, Washington Examiner en Breitbart News als politiek correspondent van het Witte Huis in de prediode van het presidentschap van Barak Obama Donald Trump en Joe Biden.

Charlie Spiering Amature Hour boek over Kamala Harris

Amature Houre

Kamala Harris in the White House

  • Auteur: Charlie Spiering (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: politiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Threshold Editions
  • Verschijnt: 23 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: €$28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Kamala Harris als vicepresident

The ultimate, comprehensive investigation into the life and career of Vice President Kamala Harris from former Washington Examiner and Breitbart News political reporter Charlie Spiering.

Who is the real Kamala Harris? And how did she ascend to the second highest office in the country? Despite her limited experience in national politics and confusing professional history, there hasn’t been a comprehensive examination of Vice President Kamala Harris’s journey to the White House…until now. Find out how the San Francisco socialite turned politico fast-tracked her way onto the national stage, only to lose the faith of her base and her president.

With exclusive reporting and a detective’s eye, Charlie Spiering delivers the first-ever deep dive into Kamala Harris’s hilarious, incompetent, radical path to the vice presidency. From her tumultuous tenure as California prosecutor to the fiery interrogator in the United States Senate, then to her disastrous presidential campaign and finally, her calamitous first years in executive office, this is an unfettered look at the woman who is only one heartbeat away from leading the free world.

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