Political Leaders & Leadership

The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other p...

Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 presidential election marked a watershed moment in the history of the United States, heralding the triumph of t...

This book trains a critical eye on the curious interaction between America's 43rd president and the people who write about him, talk about him, sho...

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders. They came of age after Jim Crow segregation an...

The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other p...

The Truman Years is a concise yet thorough examination of the critical postwar years in the United States. Byrnes argues that the major trends and ...

Every day, school leaders across the country are having to make difficult decisions in this economically demanding environment. If you are a leader...

A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second Wo...

At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. ...

Every day, school leaders across the country are having to make difficult decisions in this economically demanding environment. If you are a leader...

Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he rais...

Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 presidential election marked a watershed moment in the history of the United States, heralding the triumph of t...

Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he rais...

Barack Obama swept into office in 2008, capitalizing on his fresh and compelling political persona, the appeal of his "Hope and Change" campaign, t...

". . . vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir . . . read[s] like a novel." —Russian Revi...

The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minis...

In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historic...

In 1969, Henry Catto was selling insurance in San Antonio, Texas. Just twenty years later, he presented his credentials as ambassador to the Court...

Few names in American history are more recognizable than that of Daniel Webster. No one would deny that Webster’s substantive domestic achievements...

Offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between populism and political meritocracy, this book asks why states with meritocratic sy...

Leadership is always necessary in any endeavor, applying equally to politics, business, society, and culture. Yet the perception of effective leade...

After decades of overwhelming political domination by the People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore has entered a phase of political transition. It st...

Conflict and instability are built into the very fabric of the Middle East and North African (MENA) state and states system; yet both states and st...