Political Leaders & Leadership

Discussing the major theories of political leadership with a focus on contemporary challenges that political leaders face worldwide, this research ...

"My life has been given special purpose," Jake Pickle says. "Some men live to make money, drink, chase women, collect art, excel at a sport, or pu...

Drawing on the flood of new material to emerge from Russian and Western sources in recent years, Beryl Williams focuses on Lenin's years in power a...

This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Riche...

Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short successi...

In this major biography of an important politician and statesman, Dean Kotlowski presents the life of Paul V. McNutt, a great understudied figure i...

This book demonstrates how Barack Obama charted a new course for Democrats by staking out claims among moderate-conservative faith communities and ...

Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establ...

No other governor has become so completely identified with Texas and its citizens as Jim Hogg, the first native Texan to hold the state's highest ...

From reviews of Volume I:"Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth ...

Jack Goldsmith’s duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush on what he could and could not do . . . legally. Immediat...

Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controv...

Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq consumed so much attention during his presidency that few people appreciated that George W. Bush was al...

Brings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women's rights in America This comprehensive biography of Susan B. Anthony tr...

Over the course of his long and storied career, George Mitchell proved to be much more than just that senator from Maine. He is one of the last fro...

From a hardscrabble childhood in the Great Depression on the dusty plains of rural Nebraska, Clayton Yeutter (1930–2017) rose to work for four U.S....

Born into a working-class Polish immigrant family in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Raymond Lesniak went on to become a major force in the tough and bruisi...

Designed to assist educators of young children in building awareness of their roles as members of a global community in an increasingly divided wor...

President Obama’s first term in office was subject to intense criticism; not only did many feel that he had failed to live up to his leadership pot...

This comprehensive edited volume conceptually develops the notion of ‘de-Europeanisation’ as an important development in the literature on European...

Discussing what we may learn from thinking about the EU in federal terms represents a two-fold challenge. It is on the one hand a matter of establi...

Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How t...