Political Leaders & Leadership

This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.

Douglas-Home had a complex career between the two Houses of Parliament, disclaiming his peerage to become Prime Minister. His term in office was sh...

A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the par...

John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, but his initial popularity soon faded with the devaluation of the sterling, his achieveme...

Thrust into the presidency by the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson immediately confronted the twin challenges of leading a nation i...

As part of the series The 20 PM of the 20th Century this biography concentrates on Tony Blair's first three years in office.

Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of...

Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardised his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons w...

Callaghan term in office was dominated by industrial unrest, culminating in the Winter of Discontent', laying the foundations for Margaret Thatche...

This volume continues the incredible family saga of the Adamses of Massachusetts as told through their myriad letters to one another, to their exte...

Featuring a range of experts on the American presidency, this book offers both European and American perspectives on both the successes and failure...

A provocative treatise on the requirements of leadership in the modern world The role of leaders is never more crucial than during times of war. Th...

The authoritative edition of Franklin’s autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan  “The best and most beautif...

The creation of the National Health Service was the most significant of the many reforms of the post-war Labour government. The man responsible was...

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Museve...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of p...

'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows how central Winston and Randolph were to ea...

The precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader. Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his peopl...

Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recount...