Bøger af Michael Kranish

Donald Trump havde kun været præsident i få timer, før han begyndte at udstede sine kontroversielle dekreter og behandle medierne som en flok uartige skolebørn. Men hvad er historien egentlig om USA's 45. præsident? TRUMP BAG FACADEN er den mest dybdegående beskrivelse af Donald Trumps liv frem til hans forbløffende valg som amerikansk præsident. Bogen er baseret på research foretaget af tyve journalister, to faktatjekkere og tre redaktører fra Washington Post. "Selvom bogens tilgang er afbalanceret og retfærdig, vil resultatet efterlade læseren rystet og bange." Sunday Times

"Selvpromovering. Brovten. Retssager. Trump havde været åben for at bruge alle de midler og mere til for at beskytte sit image og opnå sit ultimative mål: at tjene penge. "Jeg repræsenterer Donald Trump," havde han meget direkte sagt om sin karriere. Men nu, da han stilede efter at blive præsident, skulle denne selverklærede multimilliardær overbevise vælgerne om, at hans værdi for landet var større end hans nettoværdi, og at han kunne blive en forkæmper for andet og mere end sig selv."Donald Trump havde kun været præsident i få timer, før han begyndte at udstede sine kontroversielle dekreter og behandle medierne som en flok uartige skolebørn. Men hvad er historien egentlig om USA's 45. præsident? "Trump - Bag facaden" er den mest dybdegående beskrivelse af Donald Trumps liv frem til hans forbløffende valg som amerikansk præsident. Bogen er baseret på research foretaget af tyve journalister, to faktatjekkere og tre redaktører fra Washington Post.Marc Fisher er seniorredaktør ved Washington Post, hvor han har arbejdet i mere end 30 år. Han har skrevet adskillige af de artikler, som vandt Pulitzerprisen i 2016 for "Public Service" i 2014.Michael Kranish er undersøgende politisk reporter for Washington Post. I 2016 modtog han "Society for Professional Journalists Award for Washington Correspondence"."Selvom bogens tilgang er afbalanceret og retfærdig, vil resultatet efterlade læseren rystet og bange." – Sunday Times

In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figurethe remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.In the 1890s, the nation's promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. Amidst this world arrived Major Taylor, a young black man who wanted to compete in the nation's most popular and mostly white man's sport, cycling. Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world's fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turnespecially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World's Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor's life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day. From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, The World's Fastest Man shines a light on a dramatic moment in American historythe gateway to the twentieth century.

This book is a sweeping narrative of clashing armies-of spies, intrigue, desperate moments, and harrowing battles. At its heart is the British invasion of Virginia while Thomas Jefferson was governor. Kranish describes Jefferson's many stumbles as he struggled to respond to the invasion, and along the way, the author paints an intimate portrait of Jefferson, illuminating his quiet conversations, his family turmoil, and his private hours at Monticello.