by Gail Sheehy · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Sachbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499187704
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«Gorbatschow. Der Mann, der die Welt verändert hat» is the biography written by Gail Sheehy, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback.
Biography examining the life and influence of Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union. Gail Sheehy traces his personal and political journey, the challenges he faced in attempting to reform the Soviet system, and the reach of his decisions in the USSR, Eastern Europe, and across the planet.
Work originally published in English in 1990 as The Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev; this German edition, from 1992, has 457 pages.
Aimed at readers interested in contemporary history, political leadership, and the process of change in the Soviet Union.
Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair. Sheehy played a part in the movement Tom Wolfe called the New Journalism, sometimes known as creative nonfiction, in which journalists and essayists experimented with adopting a variety of literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, status details to denote social class, and getting inside the story and sometimes reporting the thoughts of a central character.
