Operación Fangio

Esta nueva obra de Miguel Ángel De Marco, reconocido historia-dor y biógrafo, aborda la vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga. Para ello el autor deja de lado la más que secular disputa librada entre los que tomaron literalmente el clásico libro de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y los que quisieron rebatirlo, y se basa en el propio archivo del caudillo riojano y otras variadas fuentes que reflejan el pensamiento íntimo del personaje y lo confronta con el de sus contemporáneos. La relativamente corta existencia de Quiroga –murió a los 46 años– se desarrolló entre los difíciles años de la...

"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...

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

En este volumen el autor se adentra en el círculo literario de Leonid Kanneguíser (Yesenin, Tsvietáieve, Kuzmin...) jefe de la checa de Petrogrado, el poeta soldado Gumilov, las cartas de Anna Ajmátova a Stalin pidiéndole la liberación de su hijo o la 'fiesta de la muerte' del año 1937 cuando el gobierno conmemoró el centenario de Pushkin con una salva de disparos contra escritores vivos. La presente obra es un análisis exhaustivo y riguroso de los descubrimientos del autor en los archivos de la Lubianka: informes clasificados, documentos que se creían perdidos para siempre, obras...