Political Leaders & Leadership

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a founding member of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in ...

Whether you want to explore how our Prime Ministers came to reside in No.10 Downing Street, read about the official mice-catching cats also dwellin...

When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In...

Dolph Briscoe, governor of Texas from 1973 until 1979, was the largest individual landowner and rancher in a state famous for its huge ranches. He ...

Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Fou...

On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder left his office hoping for a glimpse of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it passed by Dealey Plaza. ...

Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral...

The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking Am...

A New York Times BestsellerFrank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedys gang. He had his own famed “Rat Pack, made up of hard dr...

John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible ...

From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy''s allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attr...

Although Thomas Jefferson's status as a champion of education is widely known, the essays in Light and Liberty make clear that his efforts to enlig...

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

From his election in November 1860 to his death in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln faced constant danger from those hostile to him and to the Union ...

Shortly after George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1989, John Robert Greenes verdict on the 41st president of the United S...

For almost two centuries, Americans have relied upon political conventions to provide the nation with new leadership. The modern convention, a f...

This is the story of a very different Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the one traditionally found in the history books. This is a much younger, unte...

This is the story of a very different Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the one usually found in the history books. This is a much younger, untested F...

Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferding was one of Europe's most prominent socialist theorists and politicians. A leading econo...

Volume 2 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush'...

John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. Whe...

The long-awaited insider's look at one of the design milestones of the twenty-first century: Michael S Smith's celebrated decoration of the Obama W...

After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960, over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower''s former vice president, John F...

After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960 over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower''s former vice president, John F....

Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov''s epic novel, Qui...

Eleanor Roosevelt is viewed as one of the most pioneering women in American history. But she was also one of the most enigmatic and lonely. Her lov...

Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leaders...

The first insider account, timed to the 75th anniversary of Camp DavidCamp David is American diplomacy's secret weapon. The home of the 2015 GCC an...

Those who say that we''re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don''t know where to look. -President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981 He...

What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policie...

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWith extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the i...

From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America''s greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt.''...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTrapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans were plunged into The Year of Voting Dang...

`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad, cocktails with Putin and dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castro wooed me with flowers, p...

More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate. Never has a more exuberant man...

Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, fo...