Political leaders and leadership

The first Black Congresswoman to serve in US history traces her political struggle and examines the problems that have long plagued American government.

Perhaps the twentieth centurys most revered presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan could not seem more different as standard-bearers of liberal and conservative revolutions.

This book uses Maori Kaupapa (a Maori approach, practice) to provide unique insights toward the anthropological understanding of power and place in Heretaunga, New Zealand.

Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war.

In From Vision to Folly in the American Soul Thomas Singer collates his investigations into soul both in its personal and collective manifestations.

This book contributes to the study of collective memory and the sociology of terrorism by analysing the role of memorialization in relation to terrorism, its victims, and the broader society.

White House expert Lauren A.

Cult-of-personality or true democracy?

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in republican political theory and, in particular, the republican conception of freedom as non-domination developed by Philip Pettit.

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

The personal correspondence between President Dwight D.

Frederick Gardiner's public life was rich and long, from his initiation into politics as a Toronto schoolboy before the First World War, through his involvement with the Ontario Conservative party and suburban politics in the 1930s and 1940s, on through his years as first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto (1953-61), to the relinquishing of his last public office in 1979.

Conversations with Milosevic is a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict.

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, a certain picture comes to mind for some of us, combining his physical appearance with our perception of his character.

'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.

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Tsar Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV, 1533-1584) is one of the most controversial rulers in Russian history, infamous for his cruelty.

This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste.

This book provides a detailed examination of internal and external crises in the Roman Republic, illuminating the inner workings of the Republic.

This A-Z encyclopedia provides carefully selected entries covering the people, events, and concepts relevant to Andrew Johnson's life.

Born into a traditional Welsh valley community, Paul Murphy has been a member of the Labour Party for more than 55 years.

This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization.

This book seeks to demonstrate that we can learn from both 'good' and 'bad' leaders.

This book explores contemporary populist politics through the lens of ontological security theory.

This account of President Masaryk's life was taken from his own lips and set down in his own words by Karel Capek.

Drawing on the flood of new material to emerge from Russian and Western sources in recent years, Beryl Williams focuses on Lenin's years in power and provides first-rate introduction to the life, ideology and impact of one of the formative figures of the 20th-century.

Originally published in 1940, this is an exhaustive biography of the famous socialist philosopher and revolutionary.

This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing.

This book examines the history of the Palestinian Left by focusing on the trajectory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during its declining phase.

An excellent collection of essays on the various aspects of Gandhi's life and thought, mostly by foreign scholars of International repute like Jan Tinbergen, Gunnar Myrdal, Johan Gultung etc.

The 1970s era of rapid change, economic and social, made constant demands on the adaptability of a constitutional system.

Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night.

Throughout history, strong-willed Russian autocrats have rescued their country from foreign domination, disorder, and possible chaos, often using the cruelest means to achieve their ends.

This book, first published in 1992, examines the attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development, illuminating arguments about the nature of the state as well as the development process.

At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan.

For Vincent Massey, youth was a period of protest and emerging public fame.

Mostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington's hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America's historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums.

Shaken by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and staggering after the COVID-19 pandemic, the global political order is entering a new era of volatile uncertainty that may roll back the gains of the last century.

In Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership, Laurence M.

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 history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised, and gendered politics that underlay policymaking and alliance relations.

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTERA Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL?

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the 'War on Terror', based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research.

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism.

This book provides a uniquely detailed analysis of presidential elections in Nigeria's Fourth Republic.

When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A.

Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, known as Bangabandhu by his followers/countrymen, is the most prominent political figure in the emergence of Bangladesh.

When the American whaler Era, George Comer, Captain, sailed from New Bedford, Mass, for Hudson Bay in the spring of 1903, some American newspapers warned that there might be forcible intervention by the Canadian government, for the expidition conincided with sudden alarm about the precarious state of Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic and the dispatch of the government steamer Neptune to assert authority over a region which had been the preserve of American whalers for over forty years.