Political Leaders & Leadership

Four score and seven years ago . . .Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in Americas history? And yet a...

Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone--soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, sl...

This is a revision and updating of the first edition, published in 2000. Presidents from Washington to Obama are rated in the categories of Foreign...

When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelts running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many belie...

New Zealands most reforming government was led in part by Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, who then became the 33rd prime minister and an...

Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes lived their lives as though they knew Rutherford would become President of the United States one day. They n...

George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a law...

Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and a...

Between 1932 and 1981, Congress periodically delegated authority to the President that allowed him to develop plans for reorganisation of portions ...

More than two hundred years after his death, George Washington is still often considered the metaphorical father of the United States. He was fi...

This book contains a collection of Stephen Hess''s best essays on the presidency. Written over a fifteen year period, the essays selected are just ...

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...