Political Leaders & Leadership

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...

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

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 ...

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...

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actual...

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...

In the wake of the inconclusive May 2010 general election Lord Adonis and other senior Labour figures sat down for talks with the Liberal Democrat ...