Political Leaders & Leadership

Re-issued with an introduction by Neil Jordan, 'The Big Fellow' is the 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader Michael Collins by acclaimed author...

This pioneering book investigates how biographical evidence has been variously used, misused, or not used at all, by clinicians entirely reliant on...

Through the current day, only forty-three men have held the office of the President of the United States, and some have been sanctified and some re...

A positive legacy of the troubled Nixon administration--and one virtually unknown to the American public--is the extensive acquisition of valuab...

This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the form...

In his day he dominated the political landscape like no one in Ohios long, proud history ever hador likely ever will. James A. Rhodes (19092001) pl...

From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with s...

In his presidential Farewell Address of 1796, George Washington presented a series of maxims to guide the construction of a wise foreign policy. He...

Based on deep consultation of seldom-examined primary sources, this third volume in Richard Lawrence Millers massive Lincoln biography follows Linc...

When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gam...

Making Micronesia is the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Born to a Japanese father and a...

A president who distances himself from stagecraft will find himself upstaged. George H. W. Bush sought to stay the course in terms of policy while ...

How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United States' 44th president, he is also a lens through which we can examine ...

Revered by the public, respected by scholars, and imitated by politicians, Abraham Lincoln remains influential more than two hundred years after hi...

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt is not a biography, it is not a political history of the times, although the author was most careful in her effort to...

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometim...

It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor i...