Carlos Tevez. El ídolo sin Mundial (EnDebate)

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

La fascinante historia de cómo un agente mediocre del KGB llegó a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo años de avances y convirtió a su país de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo. Por la autora galardonada con el National Book Award de Nonfiction 2017. Desde su llegada al poder en 1999, Vladímir Putin se ha hecho con el control de los medios de comunicación, sus rivales políticos han acabado encarcelados, exiliados o muertos, y el frágil sistema electoral ruso apenas se sostiene. Pese a las valientes manifestaciones de protesta por el fraude en las elecciones de...

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

¿Era Manolita Chen una mujer o tras el barniz cosmético latía una pulsión varonil? ¿Alguien llegó a saber quién era realmente «la reina del teatro portátil»? ¿Sus vedettes eran tan picantes? ¿Por qué sobrevivió a los tijeretazos de la censura franquista? ¿Su marido, Chen Tse-Ping, mató accidentalmente a su primera esposa durante un número de lanzamiento de cuchillos? «¡Piernas, mujeres y cómicos para todos ustedes, simpático público!» Estas páginas se ocupan de los bulos y comentarios inciertos que se vertieron sobre la mítica vedette del Teatro Chino, siempre...