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Luxe tweetalige editie van het inaugurele gedicht van Amanda Gorman, 'The Hill We Climb'Amanda Gorman maakte wereldwijd diepe indruk met de voordracht van haar gedicht 'The Hill We Climb' tijdens de inauguratie van Joe Biden. Haar voordracht was een inspirerend voorbeeld van de kracht van literatuur, en haar boodschap van verdraagzaamheid, verbinding en perspectief is een fundament voor talloze generaties. Deze schitterende cadeau-editie van Gormans spoken word-gedicht werd voorzien van een voorwoord door Oprah Winfrey en is een echt collector's item dat de macht en schoonheid van het woord viert.Zaïre Krieger vertaalt Gormans poëzie naar het Nederlands en vangt de essentie van deze gedichten op unieke wijze die recht doet aan de spoken word-cultuur.https://www.meulenhoff.nl/producten/hill-we-climb-9789029094696
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The New Yorker Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses and disappointments that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors, and reversals of fortune. As he says, 'Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable'. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship - an essential quality as he addresses Americans in the nation's most dire hour in decades. Blending up-close journalism and broader context, the author draws on his work for The New Yorker. This portrayal illuminates Biden's long and eventful career in the Senate, his eight years as Obama's vice president, his sojourn in the political wilderness after being passed over for Hillary Clinton in 2016, his decision to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency, and his choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. The author ponders the difficulties Biden will face if elected and weighs how political circumstances, and changes in the candidate's thinking, have altered his positions. In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy - a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.
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