Political Leaders & Leadership

Mary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victories—particularly the 1990 govern...

Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo—China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Cha...

It's one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing president heeds the will of the people and hands the keys to po...

No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended ...

In interviews with 170 politically active Iranians, the author reveals that politics in Iran are based on interpersonal relationships marked by ins...

On 12 June 1944, Winston Churchill crossed the English Channel to visit the Normandy beachhead. Relishing danger, he had insisted on coming on D-Da...

Included in this volume are studies of the traditional leadership of the Yi dynasty as well as twentieth-century legislative, party, and bureaucrat...

In the bestselling memoir A Bigger Picture, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s 29th prime minister, tells the remarkable story of his life. This new edi...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how th...

When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagine...

Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US HistoryFrom the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and...

After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, ...

Acclaimed by leading historians and critics when it appeared shortly after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this foundational biography wen...

An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors. Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted adv...

Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia’s future has been ...

Although there have been many biographies of Benjamin Disraeli, none has dealt at length with his early years. Mr. Jerman has had first access to t...

This study shows how Lenin's life was permanently altered at the age of seventeen by the execution of his brother Alexander, his transformation fro...

For a state that has gained a global reputation as a violator of international norms, not least through its unwavering pursuit of nuclear weapons, ...

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon ...

Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With...