Simon Shuster

The Showman (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

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Produktbeschreibung

'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM

'This is the Zelensky book we've been waiting for' CATHERINE BELTON

'An elegant account of the invasion's first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008599195
• Artikelnr.: 69354206

Autorenporträt

SIMON SHUSTER is a senior correspondent for Time magazine based in New York and the magazine's former bureau chief in Berlin, where he was responsible for coverage of the European Union and the former Soviet Union. His family immigrated from Moscow to the United States in 1989 and settled in San Francisco, where Simon grew up. After serving as a writer and editor at the Stanford Daily, his university newspaper, Simon returned to Moscow in 2006 to work as a journalist and joined Time magazine there in 2013. He returned to the U.S. in February 2020 to work on the nation desk.

Rezensionen

"The Showman surpasses all similar efforts to date and is set to be the standard by which all other works on Mr. Zelensky and Ukraine's wartime politics will be judged." - Wall Street Journal

"Using interviews with the Ukrainian president, his closest associates and his critics, Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky's transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central casting." - New York Times Book Review

"In this cinematic page-turner, Time correspondent Simon Shuster paints a vivid portrait of the Ukrainian president . . . Deeply reported and deftly written, this book is a feat not only because it sheds light on one of today's most consequential political figures, but also the history that shaped him and the tectonic shift in geopolitics that he's now forced to navigate." - NPR.org

"Authoritative and engaging . . . [Shuster] writes with clarity and immediacy about matters that could easily descend into centuries of history and reams of military strategy. The Showman has plenty of both, but always in the service of a tight narrative that deftly toggles from past to present and back again. . . . Shuster does readers the ultimate service. He makes them feel smart. . . . The Showman is first-rate long-form journalism." - San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] definitive, thoroughly researched and deeply insightful biography . . . The Showman is a far more intimate and much better informed biography than most politicians get from journalists. Shuster is an honest and frank biographer, thoroughly equipped for the job." - The Guardian

"An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era. This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made." - Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Twilight of Democracy

"Fascinating. Powerful. Important. This book is an illuminating profile of Zelensky's courage and an expert study of the fraught relationship between Russia and Ukraine." - Library Journal (starred review)

"[An] intimate biography . . . [A] brilliant piece of extended reportage." - London Times

"Shuster's book is a narrative tour de force that takes us deep behind the scenes of the Ukrainian president's bunker during the tensest days of Russia's war against Ukraine. An astonishingly intimate portrayal of the former comedian turned wartime leader battling to save his nation-and Europe-that nevertheless keeps a doggedly honest and critical balance. This is the Zelensky book we've been waiting for." - Catherine Belton, international investigative reporter for The Washington Post and author of Putin's People

"Intimate but unflinchingly objective, this biography gives you a seat at Zelensky's war cabinet and penetrates his mind as he battles to save Ukraine's freedom-and ours." - Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

"The most intimate portrait of Zelensky, the man at the center of the world drama, painted by one of the best writers in the field, Simon Shuster. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand what Ukrainians are fighting for and why they will prevail." - Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War

"This book is a historical milestone. No journalist in recent memory has had such unique access to the people changing our world in real time. Thanks to Simon Shuster and this brilliant, sincere, and truthful book, readers today-and future generations-will have a chance to learn the inside of this war and to understand Volodymyr Zelensky." - Mikhail Zygar, author of All the Kremlin's Men