Political Leaders & Leadership
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The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
Eric BurnsCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50More 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...
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Senator Benton and the People: Master Race Democracy on the Early American Frontier
Ken MuellerCurrent price €35.69Original price €41.99Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, fo...
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Churchill in North America, 1929: A Three Month Tour of Canada and the United States
Bradley P. TolppanenCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company o...
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The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation
Rena PedersonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson brings to light fresh details about the charismatic Nobel Peace Pri...
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America
Bill O'ReillyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In t...
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Qualified: Candidate Resumes and the Threshold for Presidential Success
Jamin SoderstromCurrent price €24.38Original price €26.50Current price €24.38Original price €26.50Save 8% -
Qualified: Candidate Resumes and the Threshold for Presidential Success
Jamin SoderstromCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Current price €18.39Original price €19.99Save 8% -
Delivering the People''s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate
Julia R. AzariCurrent price €54.27Original price €58.99Presidents have long invoked electoral mandates to justify the use of executive power. In Delivering the Peoples Message, Julia R. Azari draws on a...
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Sol Plaatjes native life in South Africa: Past and present
Albert GrundlinghCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99First published in 1916, Sol Plaatjes Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africas most talented early 20th-century black le...
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Jon MeachamCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Current price €18.69Original price €21.99Save 15% -
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Abigail AdamsCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the ...
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Our Presidents and Their Prayers: Proclamations of Faith by America''s Leaders
James RandallCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50From George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama, and every president in between, prayer and religion made its way into their public speec...
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101 Things Everyone Should Know about Theodore Roosevelt: Rough Rider. President. American Icon.
Sean AndrewsCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The inside story of Teddy's life and presidency!You probably know that Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, but did you ...
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Ronald Reagan in Quotations: A Topical Dictionary, with Sources, of the Presidential Years
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50President Ronald Reagan's folksy way with words and evocative delivery earned him the moniker The Great Communicator. From witty political challeng...
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Mbeki and After: Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
Chris LandsbergCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99For nearly ten years - indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela's presidency - Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa's political...
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The Politics of Authenticity in Presidential Campaigns, 1976-2008
Erica J. SeifertCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Authenticity, the dominant cultural value of the baby boom generation, became central to presidential campaigns in the late 20th century. Beginn...
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Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
John George Nicolay and John HayCurrent price €9.66Original price €10.50Current price €9.66Original price €10.50Save 8% -
Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power
Ronan FanningCurrent price €26.55Original price €29.50Eamon de Valera embodies Irish independence much as de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Churchill exemplifies British resolve. Ronan Fannin...
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The Hamilton Collection: The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
Dan TuckerCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99The smash-hit musical Hamilton presents its central character as a truth-telling immigrant boot-strapper who used his extraordinary intelligence to...
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Harold Macmillan
Charles WilliamsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox...
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The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, Volume 23: 22 October-31 December 1779
University of Virginia PressCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99As October 1779 became November, George Washington realized that autumn had advanced too far for a combined Franco-American assault against the Bri...
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The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series: Volume 10: 1 July 1805-31 December 1805
University of Virginia PressCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99During the six months covered in this volume, Madison contended with the failed negotiations between Spain and the United States to settle disputed...
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Women and Leadership
Deborah L. RhodeCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percen...
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The Trudeau Formula - Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent
Martin LukacsCurrent price €42.57Original price €49.50Current price €42.57Original price €49.50Save 14% -
Widows and Daughters: Gender, Kinship, and Power in South Asia
Anna SuvorovaCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50This book outlines the so called 'contemporary Asian matriarchate'. In the twentieth century, six women have held the office of prime minister in S...
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The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan
Sikandar HayatCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Based on the concept of charisma formulated by Max Weber and developed by recent writers, this second revised edition concentrates on 'personality-...
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G. CallowayCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99George Washington dominates the narrative of the nation's birth, yet American history has largely forgotten what he knew: that the country's fate d...
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The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches
Brian MacArthurCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches ...
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Female Force: Hillary Clinton the graphic novel
Michael FrizellCurrent price €27.87Original price €33.99Current price €27.87Original price €33.99Save 18% -
Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere
Thomas Andrew O'KeefeCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere applies competing definitions and conceptions of hegemony to various for...
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When Democracy Trumps Populism: European and Latin American Lessons for the United States
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Be...
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Lincoln''S Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
John BurtCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceIn 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S....
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Gladstone
Roy JenkinsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of ninet...
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