Tag archieven: Simon & Schuster

Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Marissa Stapley – The Lightning Bottles

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 24 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de muziekroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Marissa Stapley. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles review, recensie en informatie

  • “Fiercely visceral and exquisitely written, The Lightning Bottles is an ode to rock and roll, the 90s and the power of music to hurt and heal in equal measure. This one will satisfy readers looking for a tumultuous love story, as well as those in the mood for a twisty mystery. Be prepared for the wildly talented, charismatic duo that is The Lightning Bottles to take up permanent residence in your head and heart.” (People)
  • “Both a page-turning mystery and a love letter to the grunge era. The set-up is simple and compelling: what if Courtney Love set out on a road trip across Europe with her internet sleuthing neighbor to uncover the real truth behind Kurt’s death? The parallels to Kurt and Courtney aren’t that exact… Still, we all know what we’re meant to be listening to while reading it.” (Lit Hub)

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles

The Lightning Bottles

  • Auteur: Marissa Stapley (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, muziekroman
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 24 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Marissa Stapley

The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Lucky returns with a spellbinding story of rock ‘n’ roll and star-crossed love—about grunge-era musician Jane Pyre’s journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier.

He was the troubled face of rock ‘n’ roll…until he suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Jane Pyre was once half of the famous rock ‘n’ roll duo, the Lightning Bottles. Years later, she’s perhaps the most hated—and least understood—woman in music. She was never as popular with fans as her bandmate (and soulmate), Elijah Hart—even if Jane was the one who wrote the songs that catapulted the Lightning Bottles to instant, dizzying fame, first in the Seattle grunge scene, then around the world.

But ever since Elijah disappeared five years earlier and the band’s meteoric rise to fame came crashing down, the public hatred of Jane has taken on new levels, and all she wants to do is retreat. What she doesn’t anticipate is the bombshell that awaits her at her new home in the German countryside: the sullen teenaged girl next door—a Lightning Bottles superfan—who claims to have proof that not only is Elijah still alive, he’s also been leaving secret messages for Jane. And they need to find them right away.

A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, The Lightning Bottles is both a love letter to the 90s and a searing portrait of the cost of fame.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, China, Geschiedenisboeken

Barry Werth – Prisoner of Lies

Barry Werth Prisoner of Lies recensie, review en informatie boek over Jack Downey, de langst door China gevangen gehouden Amerikaanse krijgsgevangene. Op 20 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster dit nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Berry Werth. 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.

Barry Werth Prisoner of Lies review en recensie

  • “Gripping…A thrilling spy story and informative Cold War exploration.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “All countries lie and all countries spy. But for a while in the dead middle of the 20th century the United States pretended that it was different, and the young CIA recruit Jack Downey became the victim of the truths his country refused to tell. Barry Werth’s wonderful new book is a real-life page-turner, a history of the Cold War, a study in stoic heroism, and a profound tale of forgiveness and rebirth.” (Michael Gorra, Amerikaanse schrijver)
  • “Riveting…A robust look at the Cold War’s perpetual limbo through the prism of one spy’s harrowing ordeal.” (Publeshers Weekly)
  • “It’s difficult to grasp what Jack Downey went through in his Chinese imprisonment – and just as difficult to grasp how he was able to recover from it so thoroughly and so fruitfully. In Barry Werth, Downey’s story has found the perfect writer: thorough, fair, insightful, and most of all empathetic. This is an important book.” (Daniel Okrent, Amerikaanse auteur)

Barry Werth Prisoner of Lies

Prisoner of Lies

Jack Downey’s Cold War, America’s Longest-Held POW

  • Auteur: Barry Werth (Verenigde Staten
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 20 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,99 / $ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over krijgsgevangene Jack Downey

The remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years.

John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other Yale grads, was recruited by the young CIA. He joined the Agency and was sent to Japan in 1952, during the Korean War. In a violation of protocol, he took part in an air drop that failed and was captured over China. His sources on the ground had been compromised, and his identity was known. Although he first tried to deny who he was, he eventually admitted the truth.

But government policy forbade ever acknowledging the identity of spies, no matter the consequences. Washington invented a fictitious cover story and stood by it through four Administrations. As a result, Downey was imprisoned during the decades that Red China, as it was called, was considered by the US to be a hostile nation, until 1973, when the US finally recognized the mainland Chinese government. He had spent twenty-one years in captivity.

Downey would go on to become a lawyer and an esteemed judge in Connecticut, his home state. Prisoners of Lies is based in part on a prison memoir that Downey wrote several years after his release. Barry Werth fluently weaves excerpts from the memoir with the Cold War events that determined Downey’s fate. Like a le Carré novel, this is a harrowing, chilling story of one man whose life is at the mercy of larger forces outside of his control; in Downey’s case as a pawn of the Cold War, and more specifically the Oval Office and the State Department. His freedom came only when US foreign policy dramatically changed. Above all, Prisoner of Lies is an inspiring story of remarkable fortitude and resilience.

Barry Werth (22 augustus 1952, Oceanside, New York) is an award-winning journalist and the acclaimed author of seven books. His landmark first book, The Billion-Dollar Molecule, recounts the founding and early struggles of a start-up pharmaceutical company. Werth’s articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ, among others. He has taught journalism and nonfiction writing at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Boston University. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Amerikaanse politiek, Memoir, Politiek, Politieke Boeken, Verenigde Staten

Nancy Pelosi – The Art of Power

Nancy Pelosi The Art of Power recensie, review en informatie memoir van de Amerikaans politica van de Democratische Partij en voorzitter van het Huis van Afgevaardigden. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het boek van vooraanstaande Amerikaanse politicus Nancy Pelosi. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, over de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Nancy Pelosi The Art of Power recensie en review

Mochten  er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnen van The Art of Power, My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House, geschreven door Nancy Pelosi, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Nancy Pelosi The Art of Power

The Art of Power

My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House

  • Auteur: Nancy Pelosi (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, politiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30,00 / $14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Nancy Pelosi

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.

When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: “Mother, get a life!” And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been.

In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history—not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines, women who inspired her, and human rights activists who fought by her side.

Pelosi took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day, warning early about the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government’s long record of misbehavior. This moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump, with whom she famously tangled, becoming a red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here, she reveals how she went toe-to-toe with Trump, leading up to January 6, 2021, when he unleashed his post-election fury on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation, never expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives—and her determined efforts to get the National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later, violence and fury would erupt inside Pelosi’s own home when an intruder, demanding to see the Speaker, viciously attacked her beloved husband, Paul. Here, Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for her and her family.

The woman who has been lauded by her opposition as “the most powerful Speaker” ever shows us why she is not afraid of a good fight. The Art of Power is about the fighting spirit that has always animated her, and the historic legacy that spirit has produced.

Nancy Pelosi (26 maart 1942, Baltimore, Maryland) was elected the 52nd Speaker of the House in 2007—and served as the first woman Speaker for eight years, off and on until 2023. She came to Congress in 1987 for the children and to fight HIV/AIDS. Under Pelosi’s leadership, Congress enacted transformative legislation, most notably the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A defender of democracy, she directed House efforts to investigate the January 6th insurrection and has spoken out forcefully for human rights globally. Pelosi continues to represent San Francisco in the House, a privilege she has treasured for thirty-seven years. Pelosi and her husband, Paul, have five children and ten grandchildren. They live in San Francisco, which they consider heaven on earth.

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Amerikaanse politiek, Biografie

Michael Tackett – The Price of Power

Michael Tackett The Price of Power recensie, review en informatie Mitch McConnell biografie, de Amerikaans politicus en senator van de Republikeinse Partij voor Kentucky. Op 29 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgever Simon & Schuster de biografie van Mitch McConnell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de politieke biografie is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Michael Tackett The Price of Power Mitch McConnell biografie recensie en review

  • “Here is the story of arguably the most consequential leader of the United States Senate in American history. Drawing on remarkable access to Mitch McConnell and to the senator’s lifetime of papers, Michael Tackett has given us a clear-eyed account of a lawmaker and a politician who, for better or for worse, has fundamentally shaped the way we live now.” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer)

Michael Tackett The Price of Power Mitch McConnell biografie

The Price of Power

How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

  • Auteur: Michael Tackett (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Amerikaanse politicus Mitch McConnell

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.

In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. That’s no accident; he worked his entire life to cultivate his dominance.

In The Price of Power, award-winning journalist Michael Tackett pulls back the curtain on one of the most influential figures to ever set foot in the American Senate, offering you an intimate, personal view of his life and career. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell’s early life, his formative battle with polio as a young child, and the teenage infatuation with politics that persisted through his four decades in the Senate.

A lifelong Republican, McConnell was known as a pragmatic moderate legislator when he joined the Senate in 1985. Tackett details his steady rightward drift, as McConnell’s politics evolved with his masterful ability to consolidate and wield power. But such success comes at a cost. The Trump years brought with them the rise of an almost unrecognizable Republican party, suffused with a reactive populism that even McConnell himself would struggle to control.

Featuring expert reporting, unprecedented access, and never-before-published revelations, The Price of Power is required reading for anyone interested in understanding one of America’s most influential legislators and the inner workings of our government.

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Memoir

Hyeseung Song – Docile Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl

Hyeseung Song Docile review, recensie en informatie memoirs of a not-so-perfect Asian girl, geschreven door de Koreaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 16 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de memoir van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en schilder van Koreaanse afkomst Hyeseung Song. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijkgbaar of aangekondigd.

Hyeseung Song Docile Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl review en recensie

  • “Docile is the rarest of things: a scorchingly honest, beautiful, hugely evocative memoir that’s also a proper pageturner: I read it breathlessly in a single sitting, transported and deeply moved. It’s at one and the same time the story of a life and a meditation on identity, family, trauma, illness, and the nature of love, art, and success. It’s wonderful.” (Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk)
  • “Choosing to live requires a crucial journey to discovering her true, unadorned self. Song’s literary self-portrait is formidable testimony to claiming her powerful artistry.” (Booklist)

Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl

Docile

Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

  • Auteur: Hyeseung Song (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 16 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99 / $29.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van Hyeseung Song

A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for love. When the family’s fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: “Can she speak English?”

Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she internalizes the model minority myth as well as her beloved mother’s dreams to see her on a secure path. Song meets these expectations by attending the best Ivy League universities in the country. But when she wavers, in search of an artistic life on her own terms, her mother warns, “Happiness is what unexceptional people tell themselves when they don’t have the talent and drive to go after real success.” Years of self-erasure take a toll and Song experiences recurring episodes of depression and mania. A thought repeats: I want to die. I want to die. Song enters a psychiatric hospital where she meets patients with similar struggles. So begins her sweeping journey to heal herself by losing everything.

Unflinching and lyrical, Docile is one woman’s story of subverting the model minority myth, contending with mental illness, and finding her self-worth by looking within.

Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American writer and painter. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

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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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Non-Fictie, Politiek, Politieke Boeken, Verenigde Staten

Hillary Rodham Clinton – Something Lost, Something Gained

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained recensie, review en informatie van het nieuwe boek. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschenen of aangekondigd.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained recensie en review

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van Something Lost, Something Gained, Refelctions on Life, Love and Liberty, het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained

Something Lost, Something Gained

Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

  • Auteur: Hillary Rodham Clinton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave/ gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained recensie en review

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van Something Lost, Something Gained, Refelctions on Life, Love and Liberty, het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.

She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy.

From canoeing with an ex-Nazi trying to deprogram white supremacists to sweltering with salt farmers in the desert trying to adapt to the climate crisis in India, Hillary brings us to the front lines of our biggest challenges. For the first time, Hillary shares the story of her operation to evacuate Afghan women to safety in the harrowing final days of America’s longest war. But we also meet the brave women dissidents defying dictators around the world, gain new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin, and learn the best ways that worried parents can protect kids from toxic technology. We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, Something Lost, Something Gained is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better.

Hillary has “looked at life from both sides now.” In these pages, she shares the latest chapter of her inspiring life and shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward, with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humor.

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Memoir, Olympische Spelen, Sport, Sportroman

Katie Ledecky – Just Add Water

Katie Ledecky Just Add Water recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir van de Amerikaanse topzwemster en winnares van van vele Olympische medailles. Op 11 juni 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuter de memoir van meervoudig wjnnares van de gouden medaille tijdens de Olympische Spelen en Wereldkampioenschappen, de Amerikaanse zwemster Katie Ledecky. 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.

Katie Ledecky Just Add Water recensie

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van Just Add Water, My Swimming Lide, de memoir van de Amerikaanse topzwemster Katie Ledecky, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Katie Ledecky Just Add Water

Just Add Water

My Swimming Life

  • Auteur: Katie Ledecky (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, sportboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 11 juni 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de Amerikaanse zwemster Katie Ledecky

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swimmers ever to compete: Katie Ledecky.

Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a three-time Olympian, a seven-time gold medalist, a twenty-one-time world champion, eight-time NCAA Champion, and a world record-holder in individual swimming events. Time and again, the question is posed to her family, her coaches, and to her—what makes her a champion? Now, for the first time, she shares what it takes to compete at an elite level.

Again and again, Ledecky has broken records: those of others and, increasingly, her own. She is both consistent and innovative—consistent at setting goals and shattering them, and innovative in the way she approaches her training. A true competitor, she sets her goals by choosing the ones that feel the scariest. But, crucially, she never sacrifices the joy of competition, even in the face of adversity. Her positive mental outlook and a great support system provides the springboard to her success.

Just Add Water charts Ledecky’s life in swimming. It details her start in Bethesda, Maryland, where she played sharks and minnows and first discovered the joy of the pool; her early foray into the Olympics at the tender age of fifteen where, as the youngest member of the American team, she stunned everyone by winning her first gold medal; her time balancing competition and her education at Stanford University; how she developed a champion’s mindset that has allowed her to persevere through so many meets, even under intense pressure; and how she has maintained her dominance in a sport where success depends on milliseconds. You learn how every element of her life—from the support of her family to the tutelage of her coaches, from her childhood spent in summer league swimming to the bright lights of Olympic pools in London, Rio, and Tokyo—set her up to become the champion she is.

In the end, Katie’s story is about testing yourself against the difficult, and seeing who you become on the other side.

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Biografie, Canada, Canadese schrijvers, Politiek, Politieke Boeken

Stephen Maher – The Prince

Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Trudeau biografie recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het boek over de Canadese premier. Op 28 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de biografie over de Canadese premier en politicus Justin Trudreau, geschreven door Stepehn Maher. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Trudeau biografie recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Prince, The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau, geschreven door Stephen Maher, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Truedeau biografie

The Prince

The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau

  • Auteur: Stephen Maher (Canada)
  • Soort boek: biografie, politiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Truedeau biografie

The first comprehensive biography of Justin Trudeau as prime minister—an honest, compelling story of his government’s triumphs and failures, based on interviews with over 200 insiders and Trudeau himself.

As one of the longest-surviving prime ministers and son of the legendary Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is near royalty in Canada. But how did this former high school teacher with no noteworthy accomplishments put together a team that managed to take over the Liberal Party and bring it from third place to a majority government in 2015? The Prince shows just that. In this first comprehensive history of the Justin Trudeau government, veteran journalist Stephen Maher takes readers behind the scenes of a tumultuous decade of Canadian politics. Through hundreds of interviews with political insiders, he describes how Trudeau—a Canadian prince—had the famous name, the political instincts, the work ethic, and the confidence to overcome errors in judgment and build a global brand, winning in the boxing ring and on the debate stage. And then things changed as key people left the Trudeau team and the government lost direction.

Trudeau is an enigmatic figure—a politician who has been in the public eye since childhood and seeks attention but has always concealed his actual feelings from those around him. He has shown admirable strength and skill, deftly handling Donald Trump in trade deals and international meetings and in leading Canada through the COVID-19 pandemic. He has delivered substantial results for people within his political coalition—the most successful attack on poverty in a generation, real progress on climate change, and a sustained application of money and political capital to Indigenous reconciliation. Even as the government overcame major challenges, however, errors in judgment and personality conflicts wasted political capital. Trudeau has struggled to manage his own office, with devastating consequences, and alienated people outside his coalition, to the point where he can’t hold a public event without protesters screaming curses at him.

The Prince takes readers behind the curtain as the government goes from triumph to embarrassment and back again, revealing the people, the conflicts, and the struggles both in the government and on the opposition benches. Above all, it traces why this ambitious government led by a global media darling is now so unpopular it is in danger of imminent collapse.

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Susan Page The Rulebreaker Barbara Walters biografie

The Rulebreaker

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  • Auteur: Susan Page (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 23 april 2024
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.99 / $16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Barbara Walters

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.

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