Lolita and Yo: Memorias de un Patriota

The most in-depth, perceptive and authoritative portrait of Anne Frank's life that we shall ever have.nbsp;nbsp;A remarkably perceptive, definite account of Anne Frank's life and posthumous fame. Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is the most widely read work of non-fiction after the Bible.nbsp;nbsp;Yet, remarkably, there has never been an in-depth biography of the teenage writer who perished in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. Written with the full co-operation of Anne Frank's surviving family, El Diario de Ana Frank is the most authoritative record we shall ever have of the short...

I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...

Nat King Cole murió prematuramente en 1965 siendo una auténtica leyenda de la música popular: su fama igualaba la de Frank Sinatra y vendía más discos que ningún otro cantante con la sola excepción de Bing Crosby. Escrito con ritmo novelesco y una prosa en la que resuena el lirismo vocal del biografiado, este libro recorre la no siempre fácil andadura de Cole desde sus inicios como niño prodigio del jazz hasta el deslumbrante estrellato en una sociedad aún dominada por los prejuicios raciales. Epstein recrea vívidamente la trayectoria personal y la época de Cole: su precoz inicio...

Raúl Martínez Ostos es rescatado del olvido por Alicia García Dimas y Eduardo Turrent Díaz a través de una biografía única en su tipo que, al abordar una figura, estudia simultáneamente la historia económica reciente de México. Martínez Ostos participó de manera destacada en acontecimientos clave para el desarrollo económico de nuestro país, al construir un ejemplo de independencia intelectual y rectitud personal digno de ser recordado. Esta obra examina a través de sus conversaciones con los autores, los pasajes centrales y controversiales de la historia económica mexicana de ...