Patrick Henry: The Messy Reality Behind 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'
Patrick Henry delivered the most famous speech in American revolutionary history — "Give me liberty, or give me death!" — but the man behind the words was considerably more complicated than the patrio...
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Josip Broz Tito: The Only Man Who Told Stalin to Stop Sending Assassins
Josip Broz Tito was the only communist leader who defied Stalin and survived. He reportedly sent Stalin a letter that read: "Stop sending people to kill me. If you don't stop, I will send one to Mosco...
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Augusto Pinochet: The General Whose Crimes Defined the Meaning of Dictatorial Impunity
Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile's elected government on September 11, 1973, ruled for seventeen years, killed or disappeared over three thousand people, tortured tens of thousands more, and died in 2...
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Eva Peron: The Actress Whose Life, Death, and Embalmed Body Rewrote Argentine History
Eva Peron rose from illegitimate poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America, the champion of Argentina's descamisados, and a figure so beloved and so hated that her embalmed body was s...
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Konrad Adenauer: The Improbable Rise of the Seventy-Three-Year-Old Who Rebuilt Germany
Konrad Adenauer became the first chancellor of West Germany at seventy-three — an age when most politicians are writing memoirs. The former mayor of Cologne, twice imprisoned by the Nazis, took a coun...
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Akbar the Great: The Illiterate Mughal Emperor Who Built History's Most Remarkable Library
Akbar the Great could not read a single word, yet he assembled one of the largest libraries in the sixteenth-century world and had scholars read to him for hours every day. The illiterate emperor who ...
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Peter the Great: The Seven-Foot Giant Who Dragged Russia Into the Modern World by Force
Peter the Great stood nearly seven feet tall, personally tortured prisoners, pulled teeth for entertainment, and forced Russian nobles to shave their beards — because he had decided that Russia would ...
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Charles de Gaulle: The General Who Believed He Was France Itself
Charles de Gaulle spoke of France the way mystics speak of God — as a transcendent idea of which he was the earthly vessel. He rejected Vichy, rallied the Free French from London, liberated Paris, and...
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