Political Leaders & Leadership

From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy''s allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attr...

Although Thomas Jefferson's status as a champion of education is widely known, the essays in Light and Liberty make clear that his efforts to enlig...

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, subjective biography of his former law partner, but his re...

From his election in November 1860 to his death in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln faced constant danger from those hostile to him and to the Union ...

Shortly after George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1989, John Robert Greenes verdict on the 41st president of the United S...

For almost two centuries, Americans have relied upon political conventions to provide the nation with new leadership. The modern convention, a f...

This is the story of a very different Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the one traditionally found in the history books. This is a much younger, unte...

This is the story of a very different Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the one usually found in the history books. This is a much younger, untested F...

Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferding was one of Europe's most prominent socialist theorists and politicians. A leading econo...

Volume 2 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush'...

John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. Whe...

The long-awaited insider's look at one of the design milestones of the twenty-first century: Michael S Smith's celebrated decoration of the Obama W...

After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960, over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower''s former vice president, John F...

After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960 over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower''s former vice president, John F....

Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov''s epic novel, Qui...

Eleanor Roosevelt is viewed as one of the most pioneering women in American history. But she was also one of the most enigmatic and lonely. Her lov...

Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leaders...