Political Leaders & Leadership

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...

For decades veteran journalist Tom Plate, the author of the 'Giants of Asia' series, has been engineering headline-making interviews with president...

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 ...

Foreword by John Bercow In 2011 John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, instigated a series of public lectures in which current parliamentari...

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for re-election.Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to...

'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been...

Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from R...

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single,...

A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A whodunnit political page-turner' Melissa Benn, New Statesman 'The best political book I...

Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person rise and fall Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the ...

Now adapted for young readers, Vice President Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life.With her ele...

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a...