Political leaders and leadership

Who belongs to the Liberal Democrats, and why?

This biography covers both the literary and political career of John Morley, later Lord Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923).

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of Americas thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.

This book analyzes seven Latin American thinkers who have contributed to building bridges for reconciliation and peace: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Alfonso Garcia Robles, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Juan Manuel Santos, and Javier Perez de Cuellar.

Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy.

The presidency of George W.

Fiorello La Guardia was an ambitious man who wanted great success for himself but he also wanted to advocate on behalf of the poor and forgotten.

Die Forschungsfrage des vorliegenden Buches bewegt sich im Bereich der personenbezogenen Politikforschung: Die Beziehung zwischen Angela Merkels Persönlichkeitsgrundzügen und der deutschen Außenpolitik steht im Mittelpunkt der Analysen.

'Very few people in parliament can match Nadhim's childhood experience, his understanding of international affairs, his skills as a businessman and his passion for politics' Rory Stewart'From Baghdad to number 11 Downing Street: in any other country it would be fiction.

From the 1980s onwards, a tide of democratization swept across the Asian region, as the political strongmen who had led since the end of World War II began to fall.

This book elaborates the politico-ideological viewpoints of Aurobindo, as displayed when he reigned as one of the major nationalist leaders defining Indian nationalism.

As governor of Rhode Island, J.

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.

Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister.

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s.

This timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's life and times.

This volume examines the intersection of political power and religion during the presidency of Donald Trump through an examination of performance.

This book argues that while the US president makes foreign policy decisions based largely on political pressures, it is concentrated interests that shape the incentive structures in which he and other top officials operate.

Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada's leaders.

This book provides the first book-length study of the political and economic ideas of the British left's Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s and early 1980s.

This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B.

This title brings together seven presidential politics scholars to address the Trump presidency and the current functioning of American democracy based on recent provocative research.

Published in partnership with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, this book offers insightful examinations of congressional success and failure from the New Deal to today by leading political scholars and journalists.

This book focuses on the more than 8,000 local elections administrators in counties, municipalities, and townships who largely manage the key administrative processes of elections, work with campaigns and candidates, design voting materials and choose voting equipment, staff early, and Election Day polling locations, and communicate with and educate voters.

This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia.

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The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history.

This book situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.

One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B.

Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran, but his rule and Iran's independence ended in ignominy in 1941.

What do nude beaches and catfish have to do with the federal budget?

On August 14, 1942, Chief of Staff George C.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain s prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson.

Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister.

At least 70% of the world's population now lives under an autocracy.

The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b.

This book focuses on the impact of political leaders on the integration process led by the European Union.

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity?

Akreyi investigates the development of federal relations in Iraq from the adoption of the new Federal Constitution in 2005 to the Kurdistan independence referendum in 2017.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010.

How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president-Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood-and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group.

Turkey's new presidential regime, promoted and shaped by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has become a global template for rising authoritarianism.

At the time of his death, Ulysses S.

This engaging and unprecedented work captures the compelling story of John F.

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.

This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses.

***Winner of the Political Studies Association Conservatism Studies Group prize 2020***This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Conservative Right in Great Britain since 1945.

Presidents George H.

This book marries the several elements: a given text (1 Samuel), a focal character (King Saul), a spacious and creative theorist (Mikhail Bakhtin), a historical context (the collapse of monarchic Israel and the moment for return.