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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...

Linspirado revela la notable trayectoria de Jeremy Lin, un muchacho totalmente vulnerable, ahora superestrella de los New York Knicks y primer jugador de ascendencia chino/taiwanesa, nacido en los Estados Unidos, que juega en la NBA.A pesar de ser despedido por dos equipos de la NBA antes de firmar con los Knicks, Lin siempre confió en que Dios tenía un plan para su vida y sus talentos: «No sé con exactitud cómo va a salir todo, pero tengo la seguridad de que Dios me ha llamado a estar aquí ahora, en la NBA», dice Lin en Linspirado.Luego de semanas de sentarse al final del banco, la...

Pocos historiadores se han dedicado a estudiar a protagonistas cuasi anónimos que, por su empeño, idealismo y luchas, arriesgaron sus vidas. Al paso del tiempo fueron olvidados por las historiografías, oficializadas por los poderes surgidos de esas luchas, pero no por familiares cercanos e investigadores serios que no fueron cooptadas por “El sistema”. Hay infinidad de esas historias marginadas de los textos escolares, esta es sólo una de ellas. El personaje biografiado, Jenaro Amezcua Amezcua, fue partícipe muy importante en la etapa revolucionaria del México del siglo XX...

"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...