Political Leaders & Leadership

Between December 1941 and July 1945 the Allied Heads of State met nine times to decide the ongoing strategy of World War II with their chiefs of st...

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-b...

After being wounded and awarded the Bronze Star for valor as a Marine infantry platoon commander in Vietnam, Arnold Punaro thought he'd left the ba...

The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power--and also its biggest failures. Beginning in t...

Starting with an illuminating historical survey, Mr. Carter devotes the main portion of his hook to the position of the British Prime Minister sinc...

Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual a...

The Power of Place explores the nature of power--the power of kings, emperors, and popes--through the places that these rulers created or developed...

All American presidents, past and present, have cared deeply about power--acquiring, protecting, and expanding it. While individual presidents obvi...

How psychology explains why a leader is willing to use military force to protect or salvage reputationIn Who Fights for Reputation, Keren Yarhi-Mil...

From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Seward and Stanton, here is the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of J...

For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental treaty...

Ruthless revolutionary; passionate womaniser; activist; hothead. Meet the young Mandela.Nelson Mandela has been mythologised as a flawless hero of ...