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Patrice Lumumba was a fiery centrist whose goal was to unite the Congo's tribal factions into one governing body. My e-book looks at his rise to power beginning in 1951, his imprisonment for embezzlement, and his ambition for a unified African country. Lumumba can be described as non religious. His...

C'est le ministère le plus prestigieux de la République – le gardien de la " grandeur " de la France. Pourtant, malgré les apparences, le Quai d'Orsay est aujourd'hui à la dérive. Quels sont les vrais privilèges de la nomenklatura diplomatique ? Jusqu'où les petits arrangements...

" À Bercy, j'ai vu, de l'intérieur, la machine se mettre en marche. J'étais à l'épicentre d'une guerre intestine entre finances publiques et intérêts privés. L'État a cédé du terrain et des pans entiers de ses revenus les plus pérennes. Mon voisin de bureau, Emmanuel Macron, était...

Secrets d'État, compromissions et guerres fratricides : bienvenue place Beauvau ! La machine policière française est opaque et sclérosée. Hollande et ses ministres, faute de vouloir et de pouvoir la transformer en profondeur, ont tenté de s'en servir à des fins politiques. Pour qui veut contrôler...

Ancien directeur de la campagne présidentielle de Jacques Chirac en 1995 et de celle de Valérie Pécresse aux élections régionales de 2015, Patrick Stefanini a occupé pendant plus de vingt ans une place discrète mais centrale dans le dispositif politique de la droite. Conseiller de l'ombre,...

" J'ai vécu la tension de négociations à haut risque avec les Khmers rouges, les forces serbes de Slobodan Milosevic, les terroristes d'Al-Qaïda... Je n'ai toujours eu qu'une seule boussole pour agir : l'intérêt supérieur de la Nation. À d'innombrables reprises, j'ai mis ma vie en jeu...

La vie politique racontée par Jean-Louis Debré, avec sa liberté de ton et son franc-parler habituels, est un spectacle qui n'a jamais rien de conventionnel. Notations insolites, coups d'oeil incisifs, vérités saisies sur le vif : on retrouve dans cette chronique des années Chirac toute l'acuité...

The two-party system that prevails in most English speaking governments began during the reign of King Charles II as a means of dividing and weakening the English Parliament. At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, political parties were not popular in the United States because an English political...

Judicial review was introduced into the American government by a Supreme Court decision, Marbury v. Madison, in 1803. This book details the effects of judicial review on the United States up to the present day.

Mother paused, drew the butterfly to her lips and whispered some secret before continuing her story.“It was but a month ago,” she recollected. “I wakened to discover your father resting on the side of our bed reserved to him throughout our marriage. To be sure, I was uncertain of his identity...

England, 1568. Ten years into the reign of The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I of England, the country is seething with unrest. While the mighty Empire of Catholic Spain rules the waves, Protestant England is struggling to establish itself as a world power. It is a struggle waged at a price, paid by everyone...

Frank the Dasher Abbandano was part of the enforcement team of a criminal organization called Murder Inc. Abbandano led an East New York gang as a youth and was sent to prison twice by his early twenties. Frank's specialty was killing with an ice pick and also a meat cleaver. He met Abe Kid Twist...

For the city (and the author) it was a year of trauma, possibly the most traumatic in NYPD history. The so-called Black Liberation Army shot cops in the back. In New York alone they assassinated four, machine gunned two others, ambushed others with guns and knives. A new commissioner, swearing to...

The winds of change are blowing through the sub continent, where a ruthless despot supported by his vicious military generals, and on their payroll are many hundreds of foreign mercenaries; collectively they have been, and currently are practicing mass genocide on a population of five million people,...