Political Leaders & Leadership

While candidate George W. Bush promised a humble foreign policy, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks President Bush implemented a highly...

The George W Bush Presidency reshaped American politics through its policies and its use of executive power. This volume engages fundamental debate...

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

The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation''s simmering battle over slavery Charming and ...

A full biography of the founding president of the African National Council (ANC), this account uncovers the inspirations for John L. Dubes many pub...

Volume 1 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush'...

Volume 1 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush'...

Representative Gerry Studds served the Massachusetts South Shore, Cape Cod, and New Bedford congressional district from 1973 to 1997. During his fi...

Representative Gerry Studds served the Massachusetts South Shore, Cape Cod, and New Bedford congressional district from 1973 to 1997. During his fi...

In The Formation of Souls: Imagery of the Republic in Brazil, José Murilo de Carvalho examines the birth of the Brazilian Republic in 1889. Given t...

In Grenada in 1968, Dr Hilda Bynoe was appointed as one of the very first local governors in the Caribbean in the years just before formal independ...

Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was a staunch conservative more interested in advancing the conservative cause than running for president. A Draft ...

Do vice presidential candidates play any significant role in presidential elections? Challenging the conventional wisdom, Stacy Ulbig shows the imp...

Few of America''s founders influenced its political system more than Alexander Hamilton. He played a leading role in writing and ratifying the Cons...

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is ...

Recent interest in the wives of American Presidents has led to the rediscovery of many First Ladies whose public service and accomplishments had be...

We are plagued by leaders who mislead and repress it is more important than ever to stand up to them. The Covid-19 catastrophe has exposed the fa...

The forces of freedom are challenged everywhere by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it is Jihadist terrorism, Putin's imperialism, or t...

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...