Political Leaders & Leadership

The Leadership Capital Index develops a conceptual framework of leadership capital and a diagnostic tool - the Leadership Capital Index (LCI) - to ...

William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor experienced the American Revolution and managed a state governmen...

For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for h...

Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and ...

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under sieg...

How do leading Conservative politicians strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some been more effective than others in a...

International issues occupy much of Washington's attention in Volume 18 of the Presidential Series, which covers 1 April through 30 September 1795....

The 311 documents in this second volume of Eleanor Roosevelts papers trace her transformation into one of her eras most prominent spokespersons for...

Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East. Born in the 1880s during a time of rapid modernizati...

Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East. Born in the 1880s during a time of rapid modernizati...

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second preside...

Claudia Alta Taylor received her nickname Lady Bird as a small child and as Lady Bird she is known and loved throughout America today. Bird w...

It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority, wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. T...

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's Iron Lady...

The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations Subc...

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It d...

Be inspired by Barack Obama and learn how to think big with this unique insight into the mind of one of the worlds great influencers. Born to a bla...

Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire...

Four score and seven years ago . . .Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in Americas history? And yet a...

Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone--soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, sl...

This is a revision and updating of the first edition, published in 2000. Presidents from Washington to Obama are rated in the categories of Foreign...

When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelts running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many belie...

New Zealands most reforming government was led in part by Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, who then became the 33rd prime minister and an...

Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes lived their lives as though they knew Rutherford would become President of the United States one day. They n...

George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a law...

Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and a...

Between 1932 and 1981, Congress periodically delegated authority to the President that allowed him to develop plans for reorganisation of portions ...

More than two hundred years after his death, George Washington is still often considered the metaphorical father of the United States. He was fi...

This book contains a collection of Stephen Hess''s best essays on the presidency. Written over a fifteen year period, the essays selected are just ...