**The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.“The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet**It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and ...

Named a “Best Book of the 21st Century” by Kirkus Reviews, this biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings to life the most intriguing woman in history: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of ...

This revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores the story of the most essential Founding Father—the one who stood behind the change that sparked the American Revolution.“A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important.” —Ron Chernow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alexander HamiltonThomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was...

Todo comenzó en 1692, durante un invierno excepcionalmente crudo en Massachusetts, con los gritos y las convulsiones de la hija de un ministro. El pánico estalló por todo el pueblo e involucró a los hombres y a los políticos más prominentes de la colonia. Padres e hijos acusaron a esposas y hermanas, y a todo ser viviente que pudiera resultar una amenaza. Ese año la Colonia de la Bahía ejecutó por brujería a catorce mujeres, cinco hombres y dos perros. La hechicería se materializó en enero...

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career ● Michael Douglas stars in Franklin, premiering April 12 only on Apple TV+In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of th...

From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authorsAntoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airpl...

**The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.“The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet**It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and ...

This revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores the story of the most essential Founding Father—the one who stood behind the change that sparked the American Revolution.“A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important.” —Ron Chernow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alexander HamiltonThomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was...

Stacy Schiff plasma en Cleopatra. Una vida el resultado de una investigación meticulosa a través de la cual reconstruye de forma aguda y fascinante la vida de Cleopatra como una de las principales protagonistas de la época helenista. Su ojo crítico cuestiona y recontextualiza todo lo que se creía saber sobre la reina egipcia para mostrarnos atisbos de la asombrosa mujer que yace debajo de un cúmulo de mitos desgastados. La biografía de Schiff es una muy necesaria bocanada de aire fresco qu...

Cleopatra VII, una de las mujeres más famosas de la historia, gobernó Egipto durante 22 años. Perdió su reino una vez, lo recuperó, casi lo volvió a perder, amasó un imperio y finalmente lo perdió todo. Una diosa de niña, una reina a los 18, una celebridad poco después, fue —incluso en su tiempo— objeto de especulación y veneración, de habladurías y leyendas. Durante el apogeo de su poderío controló prácticamente toda la costa oriental mediterránea. Por un fugaz momento, tuvo el destino de...

Named a “Best Book of the 21st Century” by Kirkus Reviews, this biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings to life the most intriguing woman in history: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of ...

Die glänzend erzählte Lebensgeschichte der legendären ägyptischen KöniginKleopatra VII., letzter weiblicher Pharao Ägyptens, ist heute hinter Mythen, übler Nachrede und märchenhafter Schönheit verborgen. Stacy Schiff , Pulitzer-Preisträgerin, zeigt in ihrer Biografie dank intensiver Recherche und neuer Auswertung antiker Quellen nicht nur die laszive Verführerin und das intrigante Machtweib, sondern enthüllt eine außerordentlich starke Herrscherin – selbstbewusst, ...