Political Leaders & Leadership

What does a person need to learn before they can survive as the vice president under a tumultuous administration? How do you continue to honor the ...

The book offers a study of a fascinating political personality, that of Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzôō (2012-2020). Abe's political career was...

This book considers the reasons for Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. It charts the prolonged campaign and the rea...

2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History Winner The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best know...

Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award More than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln's prepolitical ...

The essays in Nationalizing Empires want to overcome the strict dichotomy between empire and nation state that has dominated historiography for dec...

Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private se...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater needs and more insecure rev...

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his ...

Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? We tend to stereotype the Gilded Age presidents of the late nineteenth century as weak. We...

2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography "A powerful and poignant memoir."—Cornel West, from the forewo...

Franklin Roosevelt was not only the first US president to be covered by public opinion polls, but his ratings have consistently exceeded those of a...

The election of Barack Obama marked a critical point in American political and social history. Did the historic election of a black president actu...

A scholar from Nahdlatul Ulama by the name of Imaduddin Utsman has recently challenged the long-accepted claim that the Ba'Alawi—Muslims of Hadhram...

By European standards, the left in Ireland has not been successful historically, yet its failure has concealed considerable achievement in the occa...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The...

How do leading Labour figures strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some proven more successful than others in advancin...

Political realism has recently moved to the centre of debates in contemporary political theory. In this monograph, Matt Sleat presents the first co...

Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president—making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied fig...

Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats ap...

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career under...

‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN ‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NE...