Political Leaders & Leadership

Although none of his contemporaries considered Buchanan a political genius or a brilliant statesman, many thought in 1856 that he was the right man...

Grover Cleveland was a contradiction to almost everyone but himself. The only member of the Democratic Party to serve as chief executive between th...

This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant politics as an ele...

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857-8 March 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United Sta...

This series gathers and presents original research in the study of the Presidency of the United States. Each article has been carefully selected in...

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...

In 1973, historian Arthur Schlesinger coined the term Imperial Presidency to describe a presidency that had assumed more power than the Constitut...

Since the beginning of the federal government, Presidents have called upon executive branch officials to provide them with advice regarding matters...

This series gathers and presents original research in the study of the Presidency of the United States. Each article has been carefully selected in...

For over a century historians have been unable to agree about Andrew Jackson. Was he as Robert Remini has insisted for more than forty years a mast...

This book reviews the most relevant academic literature on political leadership in order to analyse a variety of diverse issues in this subject. Po...

The Constitution sets out three eligibility requirements to be President: one must be 35 years of age, a resident within the United States for 14...

During the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton repeatedly sought to distance himself from the liberal orthodoxy that had come to define the Democratic Part...

In October 2010, Hofstra University hosted a symposium evaluating American presidential leadership at the United Nations (UN) from 1945 to the pres...

The forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, arguably had more preparation for the office than any other man who has...

The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendency of American power in the 20th century. White ...

The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendancy of American power in the 20th century. White ...

Discreet, inconspicuous, prudent...The perfect prime-ministerial aide is always in the background, a low-profile figure unknown outside the Westmin...