Political Leaders & Leadership

Re-issued with an introduction by Neil Jordan, 'The Big Fellow' is the 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader Michael Collins by acclaimed author...

This pioneering book investigates how biographical evidence has been variously used, misused, or not used at all, by clinicians entirely reliant on...

Through the current day, only forty-three men have held the office of the President of the United States, and some have been sanctified and some re...

A positive legacy of the troubled Nixon administration--and one virtually unknown to the American public--is the extensive acquisition of valuab...

This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the form...

In his day he dominated the political landscape like no one in Ohios long, proud history ever hador likely ever will. James A. Rhodes (19092001) pl...

From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with s...

In his presidential Farewell Address of 1796, George Washington presented a series of maxims to guide the construction of a wise foreign policy. He...

Based on deep consultation of seldom-examined primary sources, this third volume in Richard Lawrence Millers massive Lincoln biography follows Linc...

When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gam...

Making Micronesia is the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Born to a Japanese father and a...

A president who distances himself from stagecraft will find himself upstaged. George H. W. Bush sought to stay the course in terms of policy while ...

How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United States' 44th president, he is also a lens through which we can examine ...

Revered by the public, respected by scholars, and imitated by politicians, Abraham Lincoln remains influential more than two hundred years after hi...

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt is not a biography, it is not a political history of the times, although the author was most careful in her effort to...

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometim...

It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor i...

Although none of his contemporaries considered Buchanan a political genius or a brilliant statesman, many thought in 1856 that he was the right man...

Grover Cleveland was a contradiction to almost everyone but himself. The only member of the Democratic Party to serve as chief executive between th...

This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant politics as an ele...

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857-8 March 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United Sta...

This series gathers and presents original research in the study of the Presidency of the United States. Each article has been carefully selected in...

It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor i...

In 1973, historian Arthur Schlesinger coined the term Imperial Presidency to describe a presidency that had assumed more power than the Constitut...

Since the beginning of the federal government, Presidents have called upon executive branch officials to provide them with advice regarding matters...

This series gathers and presents original research in the study of the Presidency of the United States. Each article has been carefully selected in...

For over a century historians have been unable to agree about Andrew Jackson. Was he as Robert Remini has insisted for more than forty years a mast...

This book reviews the most relevant academic literature on political leadership in order to analyse a variety of diverse issues in this subject. Po...

The Constitution sets out three eligibility requirements to be President: one must be 35 years of age, a resident within the United States for 14...

During the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton repeatedly sought to distance himself from the liberal orthodoxy that had come to define the Democratic Part...

In October 2010, Hofstra University hosted a symposium evaluating American presidential leadership at the United Nations (UN) from 1945 to the pres...

The forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, arguably had more preparation for the office than any other man who has...

The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendency of American power in the 20th century. White ...

The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendancy of American power in the 20th century. White ...

Discreet, inconspicuous, prudent...The perfect prime-ministerial aide is always in the background, a low-profile figure unknown outside the Westmin...