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The Showman

The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Author: Simon Shuster  

The Showman
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The Inside Story of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

‘This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ ANNE APPLEBAUMThis is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON

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The Inside Story of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

‘This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ ANNE APPLEBAUMThis is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON

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Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world’s democracies behind his cause.

Clear-eyed about the President’s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero.

The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal.

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Critic Reviews

‘An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era. This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Twilight of Democracy

‘A narrative tour de force that takes us deep behind the scenes of the Ukrainian president’s bunker during the tensest days of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Shuster gives an astonishingly intimate portrayal of the former comedian turned wartime leader battling to save his nation – and Europe – that nevertheless maintains a doggedly honest and critical balance. This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’
Catherine Belton, author of Putin’s People

‘Intimate but unflinchingly objective, this biography gives you a seat at Zelensky's war cabinet and penetrates his mind as he battles to save Ukraine's freedom—and ours’
Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

‘The most intimate portrait of Zelensky, the man at the center of the world drama, painted by one of the best writers in the field, Simon Shuster. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand what Ukrainians are fighting for and why they will prevail’
Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War

‘This book is a historical milestone. No journalist in recent memory has had such unique access to the people changing our world in real time. Thanks to Simon Shuster and this brilliant, sincere, and truthful book, readers today—and future generations—will have a chance to learn the inside of this war and to understand Volodymyr Zelensky’
Mikahil Zygar, author of All the Kremlin's Men

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About the Author

Simon Shuster is a senior correspondent for TIME Magazine based in New York and the magazine's former bureau chief in Berlin, where he was responsible for coverage of the European Union and the former Soviet Union. His family immigrated from Moscow to the United States in 1989 and settled in San Francisco, where Simon grew up. After serving as a writer and editor at the Stanford Daily, his university newspaper, Simon returned to Moscow in 2006 to work as a journalist and joined TIME there in 2013. He returned to the U.S. in February 2020 to work on the nation desk.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers | William Collins
Published
31st January 2024
Pages
384
ISBN
9780008599188

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