Infierno, cielo y en la tierra un traje verde

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

Esta obra está dedicada a la trayectoria vivencial de Dª María de Molina, esposa de Sancho IV de Castilla, madre y abuela de reyes, uno de los personajes más fascinantes y complejos del reino de Castilla en época bajomedieval, durante un periodo particularmente conflictivo, coincidente con las minorías de los reyes Fernando IV y Alfonso XI. No nos hallamos, sin embargo, frente a una biografía al uso, ni tampoco ante una novela histórica: se trata de un libro de historia sin más. Aun cuando su autor de forma deliberada haya omitido las notas al pie, no faltan citas de naturaleza...

Ensayo biográfico sobre la carrera intelectual de Marcel Bataillon que rescata sus primeras preocupaciones en torno a la historia, su profundización en ellas y el surgimiento de sus ya clásicos ensayos sobre la América hispánica y el humanismo. El ensayo rescata valiosos datos sobre las circunstancias que rodearon la escritura de obras como Erasmo y España y sus Estudios sobre Las Casas.