Robert Payne

Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

The Life and Death of Lenin

Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Mao Tse-Tung Ruler of Red China

The Sunlight Devotional is based on Robert Payne’s first album Sunlight. Each chapter is based on a song from the album that has its own devotional thought, song back stories stories, key album development insights, Biblical song references, song lyrics and photos. This book is a must have companion for the album.

The Sunlight Devotional

Stephen Chen

A Portrait by Stephen Chen and Robert Payne

Sun Yat-Sen

Explores the legacy of Rome inherited by Western man through a historical survey of the evolution of Roman civilization from the Etruscan to the Byzantine Age

Ancient Rome

unabridged

The rise and fall of Stalin

A new biography of Shakespeare--playwright, poet, actor, stage manager, producer, and family man--examines each play and sonnet and presents the climate in which Shakespeare created his works

By Me, William Shakespeare

Jiahua Yuan

Chia-hua Yuan

Contemporary Chinese Short Stories

Nikita Romanoff

Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on original Russian sources, this definitive biography depicts an incredibly complex man living in a time of simple, harsh realities. Robert Payne, the distinguished author of many historical and biographical works, and Russian scholar Nikita Romanoff, describe in vivid and lively detail Ivan's callous upbringing; the poisoning of his second wife and the murder of his son; his obsession with religion and sin; his predilection for mass murder, evidenced by his massacre of 30,000 citizens of Novgorod; yet his remarkable intelligence as a ruler, supporting the growth of trade and expanding Russia's borders.

Ivan the Terrible

Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate relations among media users and between users and their media are increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work for the economic interests of media corporations. But these multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of promiscuous desire serving both to liberalize mediated social connection and to contain it within normative frames of value. Payne brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of these current media dynamics.

Queer Theory and Digital Media

The Promiscuity of Network Culture

Lives and writings of ten great leaders: Clement of Alexandria, Athanasius, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom and others. In them we see the apostolic fire become crystallized not only into dogma and external order but also into some of the world's great religious literature.

The Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church

The Holy Fire

From Ancient Greece to Present-day America

The Corrupt Society

The Life and Death of Trotsky

Werner von Grünau

Lenin (The life and death of Lenin, dt.) Sein Leben u. sein Tod

The Life and Death of Lenin, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits and Maps.].

The Life and Death of Lenin, with Chronology, Bibliography, Illustrations, Index and Chapter Notes

By Robert Payne

Life and Death of Lenin

In The Life And Death of Adolf Hitler, biographer Robert Payne unravels the tangled threads of Hitler’s public and private life and looks behind the caricature with the Charlie Chaplin mustache and the unruly shock of hair to reveal a Hitler possessed of immense personal charm that impressed both men and women and brought followers and contributions to the burgeoning Nazi Party. Although he misread his strength and organized an ill-fated putsch, Hitler spent his months in prison writing Mein Kampf, which increased his following. Once in undisputed command of the Party, Hitler renounced the chastity of his youth and began a sordid affair with his niece, whose suicide prompted him to reject forever all conventional morality. He promised anything to prospective supporters, then cold-bloodedly murdered them before they could claim a share of the power he reserved for himself. Once he became Chancellor, Hitler step by step bent the powers of the state to his own purposes to satisfy his private fantasies, rearming Germany, slaughtering his real or imaginary enemies, blackmailing one by one the leaders of Europe, and plunging the world into the holocaust of World War II. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER is the story of not so much a man corrupted by power as a corrupt man who achieved absolute power and used it to an unprecedented degree, knowing at every moment exactly what he was doing and calculating his enemies’ weaknesses to a hair’s breadth. It is the story of a living man.

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

Robert Payne

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