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Dehner Große Flamingoblume - Anthurium andreanum, rot
Exotische Schönheiten Anthurium andreanum Anthurien fand man erst Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts auch in Europa, zu dieser Zeit galten die Pflanzen aus Mittel- und Südamerika noch als echte Diven, da man sie nur schwer im Zimmer halten konnte. Doch die Flamingoblume hat sich durchgesetzt und gehört mit Sorten wie z.B. der 'Cherry Champion', 'Bugatti' oder 'Dakota' mittlerweile zu den einer der pflegeleichtesten Blühpflanzen, die wir in unseren Wohnräumen finden können. Ihre herzförmigen Blätter sind ohne Zweifel sehr dekorativ, doch die voll Aufmerksamkeit ergatter sich die Anthurie mit ihren glänzend, roten Hochblättern, die viele als Blüten bezeichnen. Die eigentliche Blüte ist allerdings der zylindrisch geformte Kolben, an dem Pflanzen-Liebher auch gleich erkennen werden, das diese tropische Pflanze zu der Familie der Aronstabgewächse zählt und somit nahe mit der Kalla und dem Einblatt verwandt ist. Tipps und Tricks rund um die Pflege der Flamingoblume Die Pflanze aus den Tropen bevorzugt auch bei uns einen hellen und warmen Standort, die Anthurie verschmäht jedoch die pralle Mittagssonne. Bei einer Temperatur von 20°C fühlt sie sich rundum wohl. Der Wasserbedarf einer Anthurie ist nicht besonders hoch, wöchentliches Gießen ist in der Regel ausreichend. Achten Sie darauf, dass die Erde leicht an- aber nicht vollkommen austrocknet. Auch Staunässe behagt der Pflanze nicht. Anthurien lieben eine hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit, gerne dürfen Sie die Blätter deshalb mit einem leichten Sprühnebel verwöhnen, die Blüten sollten dabei aber nicht nass werden. Eine reiche Blüte fördern Sie mit wöchentlichen Düngergaben von April bis September, allerdings in schwacher Dosierung. Dehner-Tipp Fühlt sich die Anthurie bei Ihnen wohl, können Sie nahezu ganzjährig ihre exotischen Blüten genießen. Doch die Flamingoblume ist nicht nur als Topfpflanze im Zimmer sehr beliebt, auch als Schnittblume, in ausgefallenen Blumensträußen oder -arrangements besticht sie mit ihren einzigartigen, exotischen Blüten. Da die Anthurie für Stärke und Männlichkeit steht, ist sie ebenso ideal als Blumengeschenk für Männer geeignet.
Jane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances. Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding, and a TikTok Book Club Pick. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Vevor Spurverbreiterungen, 1 Zoll 5 X 4,5 Zoll Radadapter, 5 Radbolzen, Geschmiedete Distanzstücke, 82,5 Mm Bohrung, Nabenzentrische 1/2 Zoll-20 Bolzen-distanzstücke, Passend Für Jeep Ford Von 84–13 89661290
Funktionen und Details Verbesserte Fahrsicherheit: Diese Spurverbreiterungen vergrößern die Spurweite um 1 Zoll und verbreitern die Radspur, um den Schwerpunkt des Fahrzeugs abzusenken. Dadurch wird starkes Wanken der Karosserie bei Kurvenfahrten mit hoher Geschwindigkeit effektiv vermieden und die Bodenhaftung, Stabilität und Handhabung des Fahrzeugs deutlich verbessert. Produktspezifikationen: Unsere Radadapter umfassen 4 Spurverbreiterungen mit einer Dicke von jeweils 1 Zoll (25,4 mm), einem Bolzenmuster von 5 x 4,5 Zoll, einer Nabenbohrung von 3,25 Zoll (82,5 mm) und einer Gewindesteigung von 1/2 Zoll-20. Bitte überprüfen Sie vor dem Kauf sorgfältig die Handbuchspezifikationen Ihres Fahrzeugs, um die Kompatibilität sicherzustellen. Breite Kompatibilität: Diese Spurverbreiterungen sind mit vielen Jeep- und Ford-Fahrzeugen von 1984 bis 2013 kompatibel, darunter: Jeep: 1984–2013 Cherokee XJ KJ KK, 1997–2006 Wrangler TJ, 1992–1998 Grand Cherokee ZJ, 2001–2013 Liberty KJ KK. Ford: 1985–1997 Aerostar, 1987–1990 Dodge Dakota, 1990–2018 Explorer, 1992–2011 Crown Victoria, 2001–2012 Ranger, 2005–2017 Falcon, 2006–2014 Edge, 2008–2018 Taurus, 2008–2018 Flex, 2004–2017 Territory SX, 2004–2007 Freestyle, 2005–2014 Mustang. Geschmiedete Aluminiumlegierung: Die Abstandshalter sind aus einer 6061-T6-Aluminiumlegierung geschmiedet, die außergewöhnliche Festigkeit und Verschleißfestigkeit bietet und sie robuster und langlebiger macht. Die Oberfläche ist mit einer Dacromet-Beschichtung für Oxidationsbeständigkeit und Wärmebehandlung versehen, die hohe Präzision und Stabilität gewährleistet und gleichzeitig Härte und Korrosionsbeständigkeit verbessert. Alle Abstandshalter werden mit Schrauben der Güteklasse 10.9 geliefert. Einfache Installation: Die präzise gefertigten Spurverbreiterungen zeichnen sich durch ein intuitives Design und klare Anweisungen für eine einfache und schnelle Installation aus. Jedem Paar Spurverbreiterungen liegt eine Bedienungsanleitung bei, in der die einzelnen Installationsschritte detailliert beschrieben werden. Hinweis: Verwenden Sie keinen Schlagschrauber. Es wird empfohlen, einen Handschlüssel zu verwenden.
KNV Besorgung The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures A1020957619
The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success (´I´m a winner, Lord Sugar´) to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Stephen Pile, President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and author of the number-one best-seller The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. Failure is everywhere. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. The Syrian entry, for example, holds the world all-comers record as the driver who got most lost under satnav direction (5000 miles). From the most driving test failures (959), the most pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted), the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250 better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to make you feel better about yourself and the world around you. The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures fails miserably at failing to be a runaway success amongst funny books.
Random House Publishing Group The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt A1031730352
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The acclaimed author of Theodore Rex presents "a towering biography [and] brilliant chronicle" (Time) of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States. One of Modern Library's 100 best nonfiction books of all time One of Esquire's 50 best biographies of all time "Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment."-The New York Times Book Review During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave Roosevelt the national leadership he had always craved. This classic biography is the story of seven men-a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history.
KNV Besorgung The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures A1020957619
The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success (´I´m a winner, Lord Sugar´) to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Stephen Pile, President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and author of the number-one best-seller The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. Failure is everywhere. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. The Syrian entry, for example, holds the world all-comers record as the driver who got most lost under satnav direction (5000 miles). From the most driving test failures (959), the most pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted), the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250 better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to make you feel better about yourself and the world around you. The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures fails miserably at failing to be a runaway success amongst funny books.
ANTHONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL THRILLER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * Goodreads * Sun Sentinel * SheReads * MysteryPeople A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling. Winner, Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel * Winner, Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, Bouchercon Anthony Awards * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, International Thriller Writers * Shortlisted, Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, International Association of Crime Writers * Longlisted, VCU Cabell First Novel Award * Shortlisted, Barry Award for Best First Novel * Shortlisted, Reading the West Award * Shortlisted, Colorado Book Award (Thriller)
ANTHONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL THRILLER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * Goodreads * Sun Sentinel * SheReads * MysteryPeople A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling. Winner, Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel * Winner, Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, Bouchercon Anthony Awards * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, International Thriller Writers * Shortlisted, Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, International Association of Crime Writers * Longlisted, VCU Cabell First Novel Award * Shortlisted, Barry Award for Best First Novel * Shortlisted, Reading the West Award * Shortlisted, Colorado Book Award (Thriller)
Storytel Publishing NL Charlotte's web A1080234839
Dit verhaal gaat over het meisje Veerle, dat de dieren kan verstaan. Ze is bevriend met een biggetje dat Wilbur heet. Wilburs beste vriendin is Charlotte, een beeldschone grote grijze spin. Ze wonen, samen met de andere dieren, in de schuur van de boerderij. Als Wilbur in levensgevaar is, bedenkt Charlotte een slim plan dat ze met de hulp van de rat Tommel ten uitvoer brengt. De vraag is of het ze lukt om hem te redden van het lot dat de meeste dikke biggen boven het hoofd hangt... Charlottes web is verfilmd in de traditie van Babe, een prachtige feel-goodmovie met een mix van live-action en animatie. Met (de stemmen van) Julia Roberts, Dakota Fanning, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey en Robert Redford. In de Nederlandse versie oa. Astrid Joosten, Peer Mascini, Viggo Waas en Peter Heerschop. Charlottes Web wordt voorgelezen door Anton de Goede. Anton de Goede is programmamaker bij VPRO-radio. Inhoudsopgave Charlottes web Hoofdstuk 1: Voor het ontbijt Hoofdstuk 2: Wilbur Hoofdstuk 3, deel 1: De ontsnapping Hoofdstuk 3, deel 2: De gans hoorde het kabaal Hoofdstuk 4: Eenzaamheid Hoofdstuk 5, deel 1: Charlotte Hoofdstuk 5, deel 2: Al gauw verscheen Gijs Hoofdstuk 6: Zomer Hoofdstuk 7: Slecht nieuws Hoofdstuk 8: Een gesprek in de keuken Hoofdstuk 9, deel 1: Wilbur schept op Hoofdstuk 9, deel 2: Langzaam verspreidde Hoofdstuk 10, deel 1: De ontploffing Hoofdstuk 10, deel 2: Ze klommen over het hek Hoofdstuk 11: Het wonder Hoofdstuk 12: Een vergadering Hoofdstuk 13, deel 1: Het gaat goed Hoofdstuk 13, deel 2: Toen hij terugkwam Hoofdstuk 14: Dokter Dorian Hoofdstuk 15: De krekels Hoofdstuk 16, deel 1: Naar de jaarmarkt Hoofdstuk 16, deel 2: De rat aarzelde geen moment Hoofdstuk 17: Oom Hoofdstuk 18: De avondkoelte Hoofdstuk 19, deel 1: De eiercocon Hoofdstuk 19, deel 2: Om negen uur reed de truck Hoofdstuk 20: Een groots moment Hoofdstuk 21, deel 1: De laatste dag Hoofdstuk 21, deel 2: Waar is Tommel? Hoofdstuk 22, deel 1: Een warme wind Hoofdstuk 22, deel 2: Hallo allemaal, zei hij
ANTHONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL THRILLER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * Goodreads * Sun Sentinel * SheReads * MysteryPeople A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling. Winner, Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel * Winner, Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, Bouchercon Anthony Awards * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, International Thriller Writers * Shortlisted, Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, International Association of Crime Writers * Longlisted, VCU Cabell First Novel Award * Shortlisted, Barry Award for Best First Novel * Shortlisted, Reading the West Award * Shortlisted, Colorado Book Award (Thriller)
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings, and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners’ victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a compelling political history and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’ readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the twenty-first century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record of this defining 20th Century conflict. This definitive account explores the war through the eyes of those who lived it. A Balanced Perspective: Go beyond a purely American viewpoint to understand the conflict as the Vietnamese people experienced it, where forty of their own died for every US soldier. Vivid Oral History: Hear directly from Vietcong guerrillas, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside the US infantrymen, Marines, and pilots who fought in the jungles and paddies. Definitive Battle Accounts: From the French defeat at Dienbienphu to the bloody 1968 Tet Offensive, understand the strategic victories and catastrophic blunders on both sides. Political and Military Synthesis: Discover how the grand strategies of statesmen and warlords translated into the brutal realities for the peasants and soldiers on the ground.
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings, and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners’ victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a compelling political history and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’ readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the twenty-first century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record of this defining 20th Century conflict. This definitive account explores the war through the eyes of those who lived it. A Balanced Perspective: Go beyond a purely American viewpoint to understand the conflict as the Vietnamese people experienced it, where forty of their own died for every US soldier. Vivid Oral History: Hear directly from Vietcong guerrillas, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside the US infantrymen, Marines, and pilots who fought in the jungles and paddies. Definitive Battle Accounts: From the French defeat at Dienbienphu to the bloody 1968 Tet Offensive, understand the strategic victories and catastrophic blunders on both sides. Political and Military Synthesis: Discover how the grand strategies of statesmen and warlords translated into the brutal realities for the peasants and soldiers on the ground.
KNV Besorgung The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt A1003313150
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A collector's item in its original edition, it has never been out of print as a paperback. This classic book is now reissued in hardcover, along with Theodore Rex, to coincide with the publication of Colonel Roosevelt, the third and concluding volume of Edmund Morris's definitive trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth President. Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR's years in the White House (1901-1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year's Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more than any man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with such authentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impression of TR as those who attended. One visitor remarked afterward, "You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk-and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes." The rest of this book tells the story of TR's irresistible rise to power. (He himself compared his trajectory to that of a rocket.) It is, in effect, the biography of seven men-a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in our history. Rarely has any public figure exercised such a charismatic hold on the popular imagination. Edith Wharton likened TR's vitality to radium. H. G. Wells said that he was "a very symbol of the creative will in man." Walter Lippmann characterized him simply as our only "lovable" chief executive. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt, the son of a wealthy Yankee father and a plantation-bred southern belle, transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He had a youthful romance as lyrical-and tragic-as any in Victorian fiction. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy under President McKinley, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president of the United States. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR's pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive, and recognized as such in his early teens. His apparently random adventures were precipitated and linked by various aspects of his character, not least an overwhelming will. "It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves," the author writes, "and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people."
KNV Besorgung The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt A1003313150
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A collector's item in its original edition, it has never been out of print as a paperback. This classic book is now reissued in hardcover, along with Theodore Rex, to coincide with the publication of Colonel Roosevelt, the third and concluding volume of Edmund Morris's definitive trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth President. Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR's years in the White House (1901-1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year's Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more than any man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with such authentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impression of TR as those who attended. One visitor remarked afterward, "You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk-and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes." The rest of this book tells the story of TR's irresistible rise to power. (He himself compared his trajectory to that of a rocket.) It is, in effect, the biography of seven men-a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in our history. Rarely has any public figure exercised such a charismatic hold on the popular imagination. Edith Wharton likened TR's vitality to radium. H. G. Wells said that he was "a very symbol of the creative will in man." Walter Lippmann characterized him simply as our only "lovable" chief executive. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt, the son of a wealthy Yankee father and a plantation-bred southern belle, transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He had a youthful romance as lyrical-and tragic-as any in Victorian fiction. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy under President McKinley, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president of the United States. Seven months later, an assassin's bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR's pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive, and recognized as such in his early teens. His apparently random adventures were precipitated and linked by various aspects of his character, not least an overwhelming will. "It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves," the author writes, "and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people."