Bøger af Nigel Hamilton

From renowned biographer­­­ Nigel Hamilton, author of the epic FDR at War trilogy and the bestselling JFK: Reckless Youth, comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance -- and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union. Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the "railsplitter" from Illinois grew into his critical role as U.S. commander-in-chief, and managed to outwit his formidable opponent, Jefferson Davis, in what remains history's only military faceoff between rival American presidents. Davis was a trained soldier and war hero; Lincoln a country lawyer who had only briefly served in the militia. Confronted with the most violent and challenging war ever seen on American soil, Lincoln seemed ill-suited to the task: inexperienced, indecisive, and a poor judge of people's motives, he allowed his administration's war policies to be sabotaged by fickle, faithless cabinet officials while entrusting command of his army to a preening young officer named George McClellan - whose defeat in battle left Washington, the nation's capital, at the mercy of General Robert E. Lee, Davis's star performer. The war almost ended there. But in a Shakespearean twist, Lincoln summoned the courage to make, at last, a climactic decision: issuing as a "military necessity" a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could not feed or fund their armed insurrection. The new war policy doomed the rebellion--which was in dire need of support from Europe, none of whose governments now would dare to recognize rebel "independence" in a war openly fought over slavery. The fate of President Davis was sealed. With a cast of unforgettable characters, from first ladies to fugitive coachmen to treasonous cabinet officials, Lincoln vs. Davis is a spellbinding dual biography from renowned presidential chronicler Nigel Hamilton: a saga that will surprise, touch, and enthrall.

Die meisten Bücher über Traumdeutung und die Arbeit mit Träumen sind rein psychologisch orientiert. Doch bereits C.G. Jung hat erkannt, dass archetypische Symbole und das transformative Modell der Alchemie bei der Entschlüsselung der Traumsprache äußerst hilfreich sein können. Hamilton hat diesen Ansatz weiterentwickelt und zu einem mehrdimensionalen Modell des menschlichen Transformationsprozesses, wie er sich in Träumen zeigt, ausgebaut. Bei diesem Modell werden Träume als Spiegel unserer psychologischen Verfassung und als Ausdruck unseres Selbst gesehen, das mit Hilfe von Metaphern und Trauminhalten zu uns zu sprechen versucht. Gleichzeitig wird in der hier vorgestellten Methode des Wachtraumprozesses großes Augenmerk auf die Verankerung des Traums als gefühlte Wahrnehmung im Körper gelegt. Das hilft die Erfahrungen der Traumarbeit zu erden und ist gleichzeitig ein wichtiges Feed-back für Therapeut und Klient.Dieses Buch zeigt, wie wir Transformationsprozesse in unseren Träumen erkennen können, und wie wir das heilsame und transformative Potential, das sich uns dabei auftut, wirkungsvoll nutzen können. Veranschaulicht wird dies durch die Präsentation zweier Traumreisender, deren jahrelanger Entwicklungsprozess dem Leser durch über hundert konkrete Traumbeispiele gezeigt wird.Das Besondere an Hamiltons Buch ist, dass er neben der physischen und psychischen auch die spirituelle Dimension mit einbezieht. Sein umfassendes Wissen über die Bedeutung des Traums in den großen mystischen und religiösen Traditionen, insbesondere im Sufismus, sowie seine Erfahrung im Leiten von spirituellen Retreats kommt ihm dabei ebenso zugute wie seine Erfahrungen als Ausbildner und Therapeut. Hamiltons Ausführungen basieren auf der wissenschaftlichen Auswertung von tausenden von Träumen. Vor allem seine Erkenntnisse zur Bedeutung von Licht, Farbe, Richtung und Symmetrie in transformativen Träumen stellen einen einzigartigen und innovativen Beitrag zur Traumliteratur dar.

A dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II.Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful?and underappreciated?leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch?the invasion of French Northwest Africa?and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. The Mantle of Command is an intimate, sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict."This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt."?Christian Science Monitor "Masterly."?Wall Street Journal

Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-Day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness.

From Nigel Hamiltons acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDRs yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy

This book gives an informed and compelling insight into the modern biography, exploring its history and different components such as genre, points of view, the lives of famous biographers themselves, and other aspects through an alphabetical structure.

Here is a man who, far from being a sexual predator or exploiter of his position - like JFK - was swept to power because women adored him, whether Democratic party helpers, the women of the American electorate - or indeed Hilary Clinton, whose powerfully manipulative personality is shown to have been vital to his success,.

Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. And who were these men in their private lives?Compulsively readable, packed with unforgettable characters as well as stories, lessons and revelations, American Caears is essential reading for our times.

For what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture? Award-winning biographer Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences.