Simon Shuster

Gebundenes Buch

The Showman

The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Beschreibung

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TelegraphBest Book of the Year 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book we've been waiting for' CATHERINE BELTON THE TIMES: A BEST BOOK OF 2024 - NEXT YEAR'S TOP READS GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 INDEPENDENT: A BOOK OF THE MONTH Written with unprecedented access, this is the first inside, intimate account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Zelensky and his team. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President's evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world's democracies behind his cause. Clear-eyed about the President's early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero. The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal. '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

Autor

SIMON SHUSTERhas reported from Russia and Ukraine for seventeen years, most of that time as a staff writer for Timemagazine. His coverage of the war began in 2014, when he arrived in Crimea as Russian troops took over the peninsula. In 2019, he met and interviewed Volodymyr Zelensky for a profile of his presidential campaign, then continued covering his administration in the years that followed - first traveling to the war zone with the president in April 2021, as the Russians gathered their armies at the border. When the full-scale invasion began the following year, Simon spent months embedded with the president's team, securing unparalleled access to their compound in Kyiv, where he wrote The Showman, his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780008599171
• ISBN-10: 0008599173
• Artikelnr.: 67074105

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