A Life in Secrets

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

Desde el comienzo de la crisis, decenas de miles de españoles han emigrado en busca de trabajo. Un libro no puede contar todas las historias (únicas e irrepetibles) que se esconden detrás de la estadística, pero sí puede destilar esa tensión humana de miedo y esperanza común a todas ellas. Volveremos es un puzzle de testimonios que se lee como se escucha una confidencia a corazón abierto; es la memoria de una generación, y de un tiempo, y de un país, con sus dudas, contradicciones, ilusiones, frustraciones, desengaños, reproches, maletas, despedidas y regresos. Volveremos es como...