Political leaders and leadership

An essential resource for readers analyzing the presidency of Barack Obama, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the life of 44th president of the United States.

In order to understand the motivations for and implications of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the White House- and her subsequent defeat-the authors explore sexism and gender bias in U.

After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia.

There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory of the Falangists.

In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy explained to him by members of the Boone and Crockett Club.

As Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber.

Jean ChrA(c)tiens critics have said he was a man with no vision and a short attention span a small-town hick who stumbled his way to become Canadas 20th prime minister.

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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.

Who killed JFK?

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S.

Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States.

The United States is not a preternaturally inward-looking nation, and isolation is not the natural disposition of Americans.

Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: There is no other period in the nations history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.

When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis.

Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences.

In 2014, Joko Widodopopularly known as Jokowiwas elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term in 2019.

Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment.

Tomas Young's War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars.

Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best.

This fascinating e-book tells the story of war taking the reader from the time of full blow killings on the battlefield toward the peace truce operations currently being negotiated in the Middle East today.

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Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this book provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who--as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia--made a lifelong habit of breaking the rules defining a woman's place in and out of the home and the status of blacks in society.

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A century ago, a Labour government took power for the first time.

Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that's sure to inspire us all.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

How political parties choose their leaders, and why they choose the leaders they do, are questions of fundamental importance in contemporary parliamentary democracies.

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Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment.

In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author John Perry explores the life of Sir.

As of 2012, only 43 men have held the office of the President of the United States.

One of Argentinas 30,000 disappeared, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed.

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In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2012 race for the Republican nomination and general election, guiding us through each candidate's campaign from the time each candidate announced his or her intention to seek the presidency through the primaries, conventions, and up to election day.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

In conversations with the poet-biographer Felix Chuev, Molotov offers an incomparable view of the politics of Soviet society and the nature of Kremlin leadership under communism.

This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk's life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breakingThe Conservative Mind.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is most famous for his role as the first Commissioner ever to rule organized baseball.

Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when Japan and Europe, fully recovered from wartime devastation, threatened America's position as the number one economy in the world.

To begin with I was in love and I am in love so thats not hard, Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Through the analysis of eighteen years of presidential data, this book shows how Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump have conducted and framed the war on terror since its inception in 2001.

This book examines the effects of personnel turnover in European Union institutions.

The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty.

This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991.

This book demonstrates how political entrepreneurs - entrepreneurially minded citizens who launch innovative political start-ups - can drive political change.

This is a comparative international study of the patterns of planning in local governments.

This book examines the UK prime minister's political leadership in the domestic executive.

This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style.

The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works.