Political leaders and leadership

In the early years of Vladmir Putin s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President s most trusted assets.

This psychological study dissects the characteristics of 20 world leaders-both men and women-profiling the factors that formed their personalities and revealing how certain traits have shaped their political decisions.

Contrary to popular claims, religion played a critical role in Barack Obama's 2008 election as president of the United States.

For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer.

Much of the existing research on race and crime focuses on the manipulation of crime by political elites or the racially biased nature of crime policy.

For most of the twentieth century, Progressive Conservatives have governed Ontario.

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful - and elusive - woman in the world.

By examining Trump''s verbal techniques, this book illuminates how he employs words to power his presidency whilst scandalizing the world.

Learn how to be more responsive to the diversity among your middle schoolers.

This is an introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to research, organize, analyze, and publish findings.

There is really in law no such office as that of Prime Minister.

Richard Nixon considered establishing a strong peacetime economy one of his most important political objectives, [not least for] distinguishing himself from the cautious policies of President Dwight Eisenhower.

Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change.

Russland vor dem Bürgerkrieg?

Drawing on over a decade of detailed bibliographical investigation, Devereux demonstrates that Rastell was a leading figure in the development of law books, the first printer to create type for music, and a significant figure in the preparation and publication of theological works.

Political Management lays out the core tools to manage government, campaigns and parties.

War has been an ever-present feature of human existence.

A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words.

Women in Independent Publishing is a collection of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s.

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery.

'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times.

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.

This book is the second volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies.

In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand.

Learn leadership from the best proven insights from the power elite in business, government, and beyond View from the Top brings readers inside the corridors of power and relates the personal stories and powerful findings from the Platinum Study, a groundbreaking study of 550 elite American CEOs, senior government leaders, and nonprofit executives based on ten years of research.

In the United States, new government employees begin their careers by pledging their allegiance to the Constitution and by committing to conscientious service dedicated to solving public problems.

Die Unantastbare wanktAngela Merkel steht in der Kritik wie nie zuvor in ihrer mehr als zehnjährigen Amtszeit.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's name does not appear in any First Amendment treatise or casebook.

A Main Selection of the History Book Club!

The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789, reveals how the nation's leaders asserted power during the fourteen crucial years from the Revolution's first shots at Lexington in April 1775 to the adoption of the Constitution in 1789.

This Element looks at new archival material to throw light on the neglected history of printing in the Bengal countryside.

The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.

Critics of President Obama have attacked him as a socialist, an African-American radical, a big government liberal.

This book is the first systematic effort to investigate the ramifications of the introduction of the Spitzenkandidaten process for the appointment of the President of the European Commission.

Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not?

Marked by sharp ideological divisions over civil rights, Vietnam, and federal power, the 1964 presidential campaign between Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Barry Goldwater proved a watershed election in American history.

Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution.

This book takes stock of the debate surrounding the institution of presidential term limits in Africa, against the backdrop of global trends toward authoritarianism and the rise of strong men.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short is a collection of irreverent essays about life overseas.

**BRITAIN'S BEST POLITICAL CARTOONS 2021 IS OUT NOW**2020 will forever be remembered as the year of coronavirus: twelve months in which we collectively forgot about Brexit, to turn our attention to the NHS, furloughs and social distancing.

Without a doubt, the institution of the presidency today is quite different from the one that existed throughout the early part of the nations history, despite only minimal revisions to its formal constitutional structure.

This edited volume examines the leadership and legacy of Ghana's Jerry John Rawlings within the broader context of Africa's leadership and democratic governance.