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By Andy Marino

Narendra Modi, the BJP's leading ministerial candidate, is strong, well known and arguable. With the overall elections as a result of finish in might 2014, Modi's crusade rallies have drawn remarkable crowds. but, the fellow is still an enigma. His supporters regard him because the visionary, decisive chief India wishes this day. His detractors see him as a polarizing fi gure. Is Modi authoritative or authoritarian? Decisive or divisive? A crew participant or a loner? Andy Marino recorded interviews with Narendra Modi in the course of greater than half-a-dozen unique conferences - unparalleled entry to a really deepest guy. What emerged is that this riveting, target biography of a guy who should be India's leading minister. no longer shying clear of the controversies that experience dogged Narendra Modi, together with the Gujarat riots and questions on the Gujarat version of governance and improvement, this political biography presents an independent account of probably an important determine in Indian politics this day. Marino files hour-by-hour info of the 2002 Gujarat riots, providing a balanced research of that uncooked wound on India's polity. It additionally unearths hitherto unpublished, authenticated files, which makes this probably the most vital books of 2014. the writer analyses Narendra Modi's values, the folk who formed his pondering and this sort of nationwide chief he'll make. own info of Modi's youth, his wanderings within the Himalayas among the a while of seventeen and nineteen, his upward thrust throughout the political ranks, his imaginative and prescient for India and his own philosophy on faith and politics are printed in a publication that's lucid, fast paced and readable. Narendra Modi: A Political Biography is an insightful, exhaustive and impeccably researched account of the ascent of a political chief.

By Andrew Cohen

On consecutive days in June 1963, in lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically and boldly at the maximum problems with his time: nuclear hands and civil rights. In language unheard in lily white, chilly warfare the United States, he appeals to american citizens to determine either the Russians and the "Negroes" as humans. His speech on June 10 results in the constrained Nuclear attempt Ban Treaty of 1963; his speech on June eleven to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Based on new fabric -- hours of lately exposed documentary movie shot within the White residence and the Justice division, clean interviews, and a rediscovered draft speech -- Days in June captures Kennedy on the excessive midday of his presidency in startling, granular aspect which biographer Sally Bedell Smith calls "a seamless and riveting narrative, fantastically written, weaving jointly the consequential and the quotidian, with verve and authority." Moment by means of second, JFK's feverish forty-eight hours unspools in cinematic readability as he addresses "peace and freedom." within the tick-tock of the yankee presidency, we see Kennedy dealing with down George Wallace over the combination of the college of Alabama, conversing obsessively approximately intercourse and politics at a cocktail party in Georgetown, recoiling at a newspaper picture of a burning monk in Saigon, making plans a mystery diplomatic venture to Indonesia, and reeling from the middle of the night homicide of Medgar Evers.
There have been 1,036 days within the presidency of John F. Kennedy. this can be the tale of 2 of them.

By Emyr Humphreys

Open secrets and techniques, the 5th quantity within the Land of the residing series, reveals Amy Parry and her husband, the poet John Cilydd extra, faced with not just the destruction and desperation of the second one global struggle, but in addition the stress of conflicting political opinions on their marriage. As Amy struggles to stability her loyalty to her kin together with her personal self sustaining goals, she turns into concerned with the welfare of German refugees, the Labour flow and warfare paintings in ways in which locate little favour along with her husband or even much less with Nanw, her jealous sister-in-law. Their compelling tale unfolds opposed to the turmoil of a noticeably altering international.

By Tammy Gagne

By Dr. Hans Hannula a.k.a Dr. Al Larson

By Leela George

By Elizabeth Teresa Howe

In relaciones of her lifestyles, Madre Ana de San Agust?n, a member of the Discalced Carmelite reform below Santa Teresa, finds a wealthy inside lifetime of visions, locutions, and visits to heaven and hell. Guiding her at many junctures of her non secular trip is the determine of Santa Teresa, either ahead of and after the saint's dying in 1582. even if Madre Ana doesn't confer with any books shop the Divine place of work, the main points she presents recommend her familiarity with a number of devotional and mystical texts by means of women and men to be had on the time. Her debts percentage some of the features of those prior works. both fascinating are the connections she attracts among her visions and the surface global, particularly the fight over the Carmelite reform. En las dos 'relaciones' de su vida, los angeles Madre Ana de San Agust?n, Carmelita descalza de l. a. Reforma teresiana, revela una rica vida inside de visiones, locuciones, y visitas al cielo y al infierno. Gui?ndola en su viaje espiritual est? l. a. figura de Santa Teresa, antes y despu?s de l. a. muerte de ?sta en 1582. Aunque Madre Ana no cita ninguna obra salvo el Oficio Divino, los detalles empleados en sus narrativas sugieren un conocimiento de varios textos de l. a. literatura m?stica y devota escritos por hombres y mujeres que fueron publicados y circulados durante l. a. ?poca. Las 'relaciones' de Madre Ana reflejan algunas de las caracter?sticas de estas obras anteriores. A l. a. vez las conexiones que ella hace entre sus visiones y el mundo cotidiano, especialmente en cuanto al conflicto de los angeles Reforma Descalza, son igualmente interesantes. ELIZABETH HOWE is Professor of Spanish at Tufts collage, Massachusetts.

By Khwaja Jamil Ahmad

By Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson via either the main problematic and the main victorious classes of his profession, describing Johnson's risky dating with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy through the struggle they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, via Johnson's unsatisfied vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assassination, his victories over the funds and civil rights, and the eroding seize of Vietnam. Read more...

By Warren Adler