Political Leaders & Leadership

The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history o...

Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not? Research and advocates of democracy agree on the significa...

What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn th...

The importance of the themes of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is i...

This book builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his polit...

Learn leadership from the best—proven insights from the power elite in business, government, and beyond View from the Top brings readers inside th...

Lucius Aemilius Paullus was largely responsible for the inclusion of Greece in the growing empire of the Republic. He is most often presented as a ...

Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, ...

It is often remarked that politicians’ private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. How...

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cov...

It is often remarked that politicians’ private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. How...

Mustering out of the U.S. army in 1919, Harry Haywood stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Within months, he found himself ...

Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minster of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in...

The politics of Canada's nuclear policy under John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, and the influence of the anti-nuclear movement

The tension between ruler and ruled in democratic societies has never been satisfactorily resolved, and the competing interpretations of this relat...

Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer ...

The first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was a...

James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman presents fresh scholarship on the nation’s fourth president, who is often called both the father...

The monumental reshaping of Canada during the Mulroney Era.

The monumental reshaping of Canada during the Mulroney Era.

James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman presents fresh scholarship on the nation’s fourth president, who is often called both the father...

Benjamin Disraeli (created Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876) was a towering figure in Victorian politics and literature. Credited with creating and sha...