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Gabriel Sherman – Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs

Gabriel Sherman Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs recensie en review boek over hoe de epische strijd om de troon van de laatste grote mediadynastie een familie verscheurde – en de wereld. Op 3 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, de Nederlandse vertaling van Bonfire of the Murdochs, het boek geschreven door Gabriel Sherman, de Amerikaanse journalist. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Gabriel Sherman Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs recensies en reviews

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs, het boek van Gabriel Sherman over de machtsstrijd in de beroemde mediafamilie, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • A real-life Succession drama, in all its inglorious tawdriness. . . . It’s a story with as much moral relevance as King Lear … Almost certainly guaranteed not to win Rupert Murdoch any new admirers.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Sherman delves in this juicy melodrama into the caustic, decades-long family feud over the inheritance of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire … The saga reads like a real-life Succession, a comparison even the family can see, as evidenced by their paranoia about possible leaks to the show’s writers. Readers will be riveted by this merciless battle for dynastic dominance.” (Publishers Weekly)

Gabriel Sherman Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs

Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs

Hoe de epische strijd om de troon van de laatste grote mediadynastie een familie verscheurde – en de wereld

  • Auteur: Gabriel Sherman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familiegeschiedenis, journalistiek boek
  • Origineel: Bonfire of the Murdochs (2026)
  • Uitgever: Luitingh-Sijthoff
  • Verschijnt: 3 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Afmetingen: 14,1 x 21,6 x 2,6 cm
  • Gewicht: 376 gram
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 22,99 / € 13,99
  • Bestelmogelijkheden boek >

Flaptekst boek van Gabriel Sherman over de machtsstrijd binnen de familie Murdoch

Het waargebeurde verhaal van het epische gevecht om de troon van de Murdoch-mediadynastie is nog verbijsterender dat de hitserie Succession die erop is gebaseerd.

Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van de epische familiestrijd binnen het media-imperium van Rupert Murdoch, en hun ongekende politieke invloed. Het echte verhaal achter de hitserie Succession.

Weinig burgers hebben een grotere rol gespeeld in de wereldpolitiek dan Rupert Murdoch. Zijn zender Fox News is één geworden met president Trump en zijn achterban, waardoor Murdoch een ongeëvenaarde invloed heeft op ’s werelds machtigste democratie – met gevolgen die tot in Nederland merkbaar zijn.

Om te besluiten wie zijn media-imperium van kranten, tv-zenders en uitgeverijen kon overnemen, dacht Murdoch dat het tegen elkaar uitspelen van zijn kinderen de meest capabele erfgenaam zou opleveren. Die strategie zou uiteindelijk zijn vermogende familie uiteenrijten en een miljardenoorlog ontketenen in een shakespeareaanse troonopvolgingsstrijd vol verraad, rechtszaken en wraak.

Gabriel Sherman is op 16 juni 1979 geboren in Newton, Massachusetts in de Verenigde Staten. Hij volgt de familie Murdoch al sinds 2008. Hij is de auteur van de New York Times-bestseller ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room’ over de overleden CEO van Fox News, Roger Ailes. Hij schreef het scenario voor de tweemaal voor een Oscar genomineerde film ‘The Apprentice’ en heeft verslag gedaan van de nationale politiek voor New York Magazine en Vanity Fair. Hij woont in Londen met zijn vrouw, zoon, dochter, hond en kat.

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Kenneth R. Rosen – Polar War

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War review and information book about Submarines, spies, and the struggle for power in a melting Arctic. Simon & Schuster Profile Books Random House will publish the Kenneth R. Rosen book on January 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War reviews

Whenever a review of Polar War, Submarines, spies, and the struggle for power in a melting Arctic, the new book by Kenneth R. Rosen, appears in the media, we’ll highlight it on this page.

  • “At once both immensely fascinating and alarming, Rosen’s words culminate in a robust depiction of the Arctic climate, physically and politically. Control of the Arctic has roots in the climate crisis, making this extensively researched and accessible exposé ideal for readers interested in science and politics alike.” (Booklist)
  • “Lyrical and deeply reported…Two years of travel to the Arctic regions and hundreds of interviews bolster Rosen’s hypnotic descriptions of the frigid crossroads where nations vie for domination and control.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War

Polar War

Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic

  • Author: Kenneth R. Rosen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Random House
  • To be released: May 5, 2026
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book by Kenneth R. Rosen on the Arctic

A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war, where a struggle for dominance between the planet’s great powers heralds the next global conflict.

Russian spies. Nuclear submarines. Sabotaged pipelines. Undersea communications severed in the dark of night. The fastest-warming place on earth—where apartment buildings, hospitals, and homes crumble daily as permafrost melts and villages get washed away by rising seas—the Arctic stands at the crossroads of geopolitical ambition and environmental catastrophe. As climate change thaws the northern latitudes, opening once ice-bound shipping lanes and access to natural resources, the world’s military powers are rushing to stake their claims in this increasingly strategic region. We’ve entered a new cold war—and every day it grows hotter.

In Polar War, Kenneth R. Rosen takes readers on an extraordinary journey across the changing face of the far north. Through intimate portraits of scientists, soldiers, and Indigenous community leaders representing the interests of twenty-one countries across four continents, he witnesses firsthand how rising temperatures and growing tensions are reshaping life above and below the Arctic Circle. He finds himself on the trail of Navy SEALs training for arctic warfare, embarks on Coast Guard patrols monitoring Russian incursions, participates in close-quarter-combat training aboard foreign icebreakers in the Arctic sea ice, and visits remote research stations where international cooperation is giving way to espionage and the search for long-frozen biological weapons.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change and great power competition, Rosen blends incisive analysis with the vivid immediacy of a travelogue. His deeply researched and personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes, people, and conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the next global conflict.

Kenneth R. Rosen was born in 1990 in New York City. He is the recipient of a Kurt Schork Award, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, and was a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for his work in Syria and Iraq. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and WIRED. He divides his time between Western Massachusetts and Northern Italy with his wife and their three children.

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Robert Plunket – Love Junkie

Robert Plunket Love Junkie review and information about the American novel from 1992. Penguin Modern Classics will publish the reissue of the Robert Plunket novel, on March 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Robert Plunket Love Junkie reviews and information

Whenever a review of Love Junkie, the 1992 new novel by the American writer Robert Plunket, appears in the media, we’ll highlight it on this page.

  • “One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era. In a groovier universe, Plunket would have gone on publishing novels in addition to his journalism… As it is, the strength and singularity of the two books he did publish demand an accounting of their place in the American fiction of the 1980s and ’90s” (The Nation)
  • “Love Junkie is a comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain.” (The New York Times)
  • “Hilarious, very sad, and constantly teetering on the brink of being genuinely offensive. But it isn’t offensive!” (Lauren Oyler)

Robert Plunket Love Junkie

Love Junkie

  • Author: Robert Plunket (United States)
  • Book type: American 1992 novel
  • Publisher reissue: Penguin Modern Classics
  • To be released: March 5, 2026
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 10.99 / £ 7.99
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Blurb of the Robert Plunket novel

Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquée, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping glamorous Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ‘verbal abuse audiotapes’), and her real dreams and adventures begin.

A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie, first published in 1992, is reissued here in its full and naked glory.

Robert Plunket was born in 1945 in Greenville, Texas, but raised in Robert Plunket Love Junkie 1992 novel first editionHavana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He has published two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida, where he enjoys collecting old quilts and raising succulents from scratch.

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New Journalism boeken en schrijvers

New Journalism boeken en schrijvers. Wat wordt bedoeld met New Journalism en wat zijn de beste boeken in het genre? Welke auteurs, schrijfsters en schrijvers zijn bekend geworden door de New Journalism boeken? Wanneer en waar is deze stroming in de literatuur en journalistiek ontstaan?

New Journalism boeken en schrijvers

New Journalism is een literaire stroming die is ontstaan aan het einde van de jaren zestig en begin van de jaren zeventig van de twintigste eeuw. Het is een vorm van journalistiek schrijven waarin gekozen wordt voor een meer literaire toon en aanpak. Auteurs die zich van deze literaire journalistieke vorm bedienden pretendeerden dan ook om voorbij de feiten op zoek te gaan naar een diepere waarheid en de verbeelding een belangrijke, soms zelfs dominante rol te geven. Zelf noemden de auteurs hun boeken vaak non-fictie romans.

De Amerikaanse schrijver Tom Wolfe wordt algemeen beschouwd als de grondlegger en theoreticus van het genre. Hij legde in essays vast waaraan een goed New Journalism boek aan moet voldoen. Het boek bevat volledige dialogen, nauwkeurige plaatsaanduidingen, beschrijft gebeurtenissen vanuit het perspectief van unieke personen en bevat persoonlijke details.

Wat zijn de bekendste New Journalism boeken?

Het genre was internationaal vooral bekend door Amerikaanse auteurs. Naast de bedenker en naamgever Tom Wolfe, hebben onder andere Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson en John Hersey furore gemaakt met boeken in het genre. In de loop van de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw nam de aandacht voor New Journalism af alhoewel er tot op de dag van vandaag boeken en lange artikelen verschijnen die duidelijke kenmerken van het genre vertonen.

Truman Capote In Cold Blood recensie en reviewTruman Capote – In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

true crime non-fictie roman uit 1966
Nederlandse vertaling: In koelen bloede
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote’s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved…lees verder >

Norman Mailer Miami and the Siege of Chicago Book from 1968 First EditionNorman Mailer – Miami and the Siege of Chicago

An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 

non-fictie roman uit 1968
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson’s ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television, and captured in these pages by one of America’s fiercest intellects.

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: nNwsroom radio station CBC in Montreal, Canada (Public domain)

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Neil Shea – Frostlines

Neil Shea Frostlines review and information travel stories and book about an epic exploration of the transforming Arctic. Picador will publish the Neil Shea debut, on February 12, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Neil Shea Frostlines reviews

  • “Magnificent and moving . . . This stunning book—part travelogue, part history, part popular science—will give you a new appreciation for a place, and its people, and how they together are confronting the upheaval of the modern world.” (Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh paleontologist)
  • “From wolves and whales to weaponized borders, Neil Shea cinches a singular storyline across the Arctic cap of our rapidly changing planet, bearing witness to loss and conflict while holding tight to wonder and awe.” (Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again)

Neil Shea Frostlines

Frostlines

An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic

  • Author: Neal Shea (United States)
  • Book type: Arctic travel stories
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: February 12, 2026
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Neal Shea travel book about the Arctic

The Arctic was once a place seemingly frozen in time. Now, while the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the herds of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an Inupiat elder, there is a new Arctic emerging.

National Geographic writer Neil Shea begins his journey with the wolves of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, and travels among the Indigenous Netsilingmiut and Tlicho peoples of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. In the Barren Lands, perched on an esker, he watches bears, or Big Men. In Alaska he tracks the patterns of caribou, now shifting after thousands of years of predictability, and in the European Arctic he explores the new Cold War that is rising between Russia, China, Europe, and the United States over who controls the pole, and who will reap its riches as the ice melts.

Frostlines is an expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of crisis, and a journey along the threshold of this stunning and sometimes frightening world. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many – all linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and pure, sparkling light.

Neil Shea is an American travel journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has written more than fifteen years for National Geographic, reporting around the world at the intersections of conflict, climate science and cultural change. He’s a co-creator of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast ‘Unfinished: Deep South’, and he also writes for film and television, scripted and documentary. Frostlines is his first book.

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Tarpley Hitt – Barbieland

Tarpley Hitt Barbieland review and information of the book with the Unauthorized History of Barbie. Atria Books will publish the book by Tarpley Hitt about Barbie, on December 2, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Tarpley Hitt Barbieland review

  • “A must-read take on Barbie’s backstory that gives us all the good weirdness we need. Barbieland marks the arrival of a brilliant new voice on the American nonfiction scene.” (John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead)
  • “Barbie’s story embodies all the contradictions of women’s lives—and the perils of our corporate and financial order. Barbieland is eye-opening, provocative, surprising, and always, always fun.” (Helaine Olen, bestselling author of Pound Foolish)
  • “More than the story of a toy, Barbieland is the story of the twentieth century. As fun as it is informative—you’ll never look at a doll the same way.” (Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto)
  • “Toy mania. Journalist Hitt makes a lively book debut with a dive into the creation, marketing, and meaning of the iconic Barbie doll.” (Kirkus)

Tarpley Hitt Barbieland

Barbieland

Unauthorized History of Barbie

  • Author: Tarpley Hitt (United States)
  • Book type: cultural history of Barbie
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • To be released: December 2, 2025
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book about Barbie by Tarpley Hitt

The explosive true story of Barbie and what Mattel has done to keep her on top.

In June of 1952, German publishing tycoon Axel Springer was sending a new paper to print: a four-page broadsheet that almost ready, save for a narrow blank on the second page. With minutes to spare, Springer commissioned a one-block cartoon of a petite blonde with a predilection for rich men. That blonde was named “Lilli.” But in a span of seven short years, she would be reborn in plastic, across an ocean, and under a different name: Barbara Millicent Roberts.

If Barbie began as a blank space, the world has spent seven decades filling it in. No doll has elicited more adoration from fans, more hatred from detractors, and more eyerolls from the indifferent. To boosters, she is the ultimate symbol of unabashed girlhood, an 11.5-inch figurine who shot to the moon before American women could get credit cards, an evolving illustration that, per one tagline, “we girls can do anything.” To critics, she represents an inane vision of femininity that was going out of style just years after she was “born”—an homage to impossible body proportions, an emblem of Eurocentric beauty standards, a bimbo built on an empire of polyethylene. For everyone else, Barbie is to dolls what Xerox is to copy machines, or Kleenex is to tissues. She is, for better or for worse, an American icon.

Barbie’s conquest over the toy market did not happen by accident. It is the byproduct of meticulous marketing, occasional backstabbing, squadrons of designers with strong opinions on coral lip shades, and covert corporate maneuvers—many of which replicate, in miniature, the economic trajectory of the country Barbie seems to represent.

Tarpley Hitt is a journalist in New York, New York, where she is an editor at and contributor to The Drift magazine. She has previously reported on culture and money for The Daily Beast and Gawker, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Air Mail, Deseret Magazine, and Miami New Times.

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Walter Isaacson – The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

Walter Isaacson The Greatest Sentence Ever Written review, recensie en informatie boek over de Declaration of Independence. Op 18 november 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Walter Isaacson over de Amerikaanse onafhankelijkheidsverklaring. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Walter Isaacson The Greatest Sentence Ever Written review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, het boek over de Declaration of Independence, geschreven door Walter Isaacson, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Walter Isaacson The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

  • Auteur: Walter Isaacson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Declaration of Independence boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 18 november 2025
  • Omvang: 80 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 20.00 / $ 10.99 / $ 9.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het boek van Walter Isaacson over de Declaration of Independence

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.

To celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a fascinating deep dive into the creation of one of history’s most powerful sentences: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, this line lays the foundation for the American Dream and defines the common ground we share as a nation.

Isaacson unpacks its genius, word by word, illuminating the then-radical concepts behind it. Readers will gain a fresh appreciation for how it was drafted to inspire unity, equality, and the enduring promise of America. With clarity and insight, he reveals not just the power of these words but describes how, in these polarized times, we can use them to restore an appreciation for our common values.

Walter Isaacson is born on 20 May 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023.

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Irin Carmon – Unbearable

Irin Carmon Unbearable review and information book of the Israeli-American journalist about Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. Atria/One Signal Publishers will publish the the book by Irin Carmon, on October 28. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Irin Carmon Unbearable reviews

  • “A gripping page-turner: revelatory, horrifying, infuriating, sometimes inspirational, always informative….Required reading.” (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)
  • “Unbearable exposes the devastating reality: that in today’s America becoming pregnant can mean losing your basic human dignity and autonomy. With meticulous reporting, riveting storytelling, and profound compassion, Irin Carmon reveals how our healthcare system fails women at their most vulnerable moments, and why we must do better.” (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
  • “Irin Carmon brings together powerful and intimate stories of people navigating the spectrum of pregnancy in America. From racial biases and restrictive laws, these narratives describe the deeply fraught system that makes being pregnant anything but easy or safe. Unbearable reminds us that we are not alone and that when we stand up for the pregnant people and their families, we make the world better for all of us.” (Meera Shah, Chief Medical Officer of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic)

Irin Carmon Unbearable

Unbearable

Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

  • Author: Irin Camon (United States)
  • Book type: feminist book, journalism book
  • Publisher: Atria / One Signal Publishers
  • To be released: 28 oktober 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 19.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book by Irin Carmon about Perils of Pregnancy in America

From the award-winning New York magazine reporter and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG, an ambitious and passionate exploration of what’s gone wrong with pregnancy in America, through the lens of history, politics, and the searing experiences of five women.

Journalist Irin Carmon was eight months pregnant when the Supreme Court allowed states to ban abortion, unleashing pain and suffering for those who didn’t want to be pregnant and, shockingly to some, those who did. What was clear to Carmon from her dozen years of reporting—and from what she felt in her bones—was how incomplete the American story of reproduction had been, and how much had been unexpressed, hidden, or taken for granted, and not just by conservative justices or in red states. Whether in cosmopolitan, liberal New York City or rural Alabama, the entire system is broken.

Unbearable tells a deeper story, going beyond the headlines and any one experience or choice, and grounded in history and journalism. It introduces us to five women navigating pregnancy care—from that first positive pregnancy test through joy, loss, and the unforeseen—in a country that is at best indifferent and at worst willfully cruel, and to brave, outnumbered people fighting to make it better. Written with deep empathy and analytical rigor, Unbearable is at once a moving story of interconnection, a harrowing exposé, and assertion of humanity. Above all, it is a powerful call for solidarity, regardless of our circumstances or our decisions.

Irin Carmon was born in Israel. She is an Israeli-American journalist, commentator and award-winning senior correspondent at New York magazine, where she covers gender, law, politics, and more. Previously, she was a CNN contributor, a contributing writer to The Washington Post’s “Outlook”, a national reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, and a staff writer at Salon and Jezebel. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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Jake Tapper – Race Against Terror

Jake Tapper Race Against Terror review, recensie en informatie boek over de jacht op een Al Qaeda-moordenaar aan het begin van de eeuwige oorlog. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Atria Books het boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en televisiepresentator van CNN. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Jake Tapper Race Against Terror review en recensie

  • “It’s no exaggeration to say that Race Against Terror has everything: brilliant detective work, combat scenes, the stunning trial of terrorist Spin Ghul in a Brooklyn courtroom of all unlikely places.” (James Patterson)
  • “A masterclass in true-crime storytelling. Jake Tapper delivers a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the only terrorist ever tried and convicted for killing U.S. soldiers overseas…Fascinating, fast-paced, and deeply human, this book reads like an edge-of-your-seat spy novel.” (Brad Thor)
  • “A riveting story with a master’s sublime command. There are moments when this work of non-fiction seems more like a novel. It is taut, suspenseful, and true. I couldn’t put it down.” (Ken Burns)
  • “Not only riveting to read but also shines an essential light on the quest for justice in the modern age of terrorism.” (David Grann)

Jake Tapper Race Against Terror

Race Against Terror

Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War

  • Auteur: Jake Tapper (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke true crime
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek van Jake Tapper over de jacht op een Al Qaeda-terrorist

In this thrilling true story, bestselling author Jake Tapper uncovers an investigation—unlike any other in American history—to lock up a dangerous terrorist before he’s set free.

June 2011: The case has been cold for nearly ten years when a terrorist fleeing the Arab Spring turns himself in and confesses to killing American soldiers in Afghanistan. This brazen act sets off an unlikely chain of events that puts the entirety of the American justice system to the test. They have the killer, but no evidence to prove the murders happened.

Determined to deliver justice, a team led by federal prosecutors Dave Bitkower and Shreve Ariail must traverse the globe, uncovering facts across thousands of miles and tracing shocking plots of terror in order to prevent tragedy from striking again.

Through intense reporting and meticulous recreation, Race Against Terror shows a man radicalized to enact violence, courageous soldiers who risked their lives for each other, and the diverse set of men and women who work tirelessly to stay one step ahead of disaster. In this gripping narrative history CNN’s Jake Tapper reveals the true costs of the War on Terror and delivers a salient warning for the increasing threats of extremism we face to this day.

Jake Tapper was born 12 March 1969 in New York. He has written two New York Times bestselling novels, The Hellfire Club and The Devil May Dance, as well as the bestselling nonfiction books The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor and Race Against Terror. He is the lead Washington, DC, anchor and chief correspondent for CNN. A Dartmouth graduate and Philadelphia native, he lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, and son.

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Vincent Bevins – De Jakartamethode

Vincent Bevins De Jakartamethode recensie en informatie boek over hoe het Amerikaanse anticommunisme de wereld veranderde. Op 22 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Omniboek de Nederlandse vertaling van The Jakarta Method, het boek van Vincent Bevins, de Amerikaanse journalist. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Vincent Bevins De Jakartamethode recensie

  • “Een radicaal nieuwe geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten in het buitenland.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “De Jakartamethode is een duidelijke en onderbouwde aanklacht tegen het Amerikaanse interventionisme sinds 1945 … en verhaal is ook zo nu en dan aangrijpend.” (The Herald of Scotland)
  • “Het boek geeft een geeft een welkom inzicht op de misdaden die in Indonesië plaatsvonden, een geschiedenis die in het Westen grotendeels vergeten is… maar het stelt ook de fundamentele vraag waarom Amerika zulke wreedheden heeft gesteund… Bevins betoogt op overtuigende wijze dat het algehele anticommunisme van zijn land een soort fanatisme is, een irrationele drang die zijn oorsprong vindt in de oprichting van de Verenigde Staten.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Vincent Bevins De Jakartamethode

De Jakartamethode

Hoe het Amerikaanse anticommunisme de wereld veranderde

  • Auteur: Vincent Bevins (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Origineel: The Jakarta Method (2021)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Henk Moerdijk
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 22 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 29,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over het de geschiedenis van het Amerikaanse anticommunisme

In De Jakartamethode laat Vincent Bevins zien dat de brute uitroeiing van ongewapende linksdenkenden een belangrijk onderdeel was van een van de grootste Amerikaanse overwinningen tijdens de Koude Oorlog. In 1965 hielp de Amerikaanse regering het Indonesische leger bij een bloedige zuivering, waarbij naar schatting een miljoen vermeende communisten – vaak onschuldige burgers – om het leven kwamen. Met de vernietiging van de grootste communistische partij buiten China en de Sovjet-Unie werd niet alleen een politieke beweging uitgewist, maar ook de weg vrijgemaakt voor vergelijkbare terreurcampagnes elders in de wereld, zoals in Chili en Brazilië.

In deze nieuwe geschiedenis over de heksenjacht op het communisme tijdens de Koude Oorlog baseert Vincent Bevins zich op gedeclassificeerde documenten, archiefonderzoek en ooggetuigenverslagen. Hij weerlegt het idee dat de ontwikkelingswereld vreedzaam het kapitalistische systeem van de VS overnam.

Vincent Bevins is geboren op 11 juni 1984 in Santa Monica, Californië, Verenigde Staten. Hij is een prijswinnende journalist en correspondent. Voor de Washington Post was hij correspondent in Zuidoost-Azië, voor de Los Angeles Times in Brazilië. Tegenwoordig woont hij in Jakarta en schrijft hij onder andere voor de New York Times, The Economist en The Guardian.

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