Political Leaders & Leadership

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for re-election.Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to...

'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been...

Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from R...

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single,...

A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A whodunnit political page-turner' Melissa Benn, New Statesman 'The best political book I...

Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person rise and fall Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the ...

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a...

**A FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Glorious . . . Scurr has achieve...

One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. The real story of Oba...

Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime ...

A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.A gripping story of...

Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years from 37 to 41 CE before his infamous tenure came to a violent end. While much has been written about Ca...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller.From President-Elect Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 United States presidential election, Promise Me Dad is ...

With the Eurozone engulfed in an unprecedented crisis, one political figure looms largest of all, Angela Merkel, the leader of its most powerful ec...

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest ga...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Even...

'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Ev...

After a decade as Conservative Party leader, David Cameron remains an enigma to those outside his tight-knit inner circle. This authoritative biogr...

After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear ...

There is a distinct lack of readily available information about the British prime ministers, especially as a group. There are thick biographies of ...

Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered public figures, a man synonymous with the long, bitter struggle to rid South Africa of an aparthe...

No one is born to lead. This is the idea at the heart of this thoughtful book on leadership. Popular culture feeds us images of the square-jawed, s...

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offe...

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, ...