Political leaders and leadership

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'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire .

Publish, market, and sell your own e-book Although creating an e-book seems fairly straightforward, it is not.

The Global Obama examines the president's image in five continents and more than twenty countries.

The New York Times bestseller.

What would Caligula do?

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets'' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world.

'I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926.

This book argues that American democracy is in crisis.

'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining.

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.

No one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich.

In Thunder from the Prairie, Jerry Harrington explores the life of Harold E.

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Dick Leonard's British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries surveys the lives and careers of all the 32 Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole (1721-42) to Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery (1894-95), in 32 succinct, informative and entertaining chapters.

On May 3, 1861, Illinois Governor Richard Yates appointed a Mexican War veteran with Democratic sympathies and southern ties to be chief mustering officer at Camp Yates in Springfield.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the semi-presidential regimes of Portugal and Timor-Leste, suggesting that they both reserve a "e;moderating power"e; for presidents in line with what was theorized by Benjamin Constant.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022'Superb' The Times'Engrossing and revelatory' Observer'Powerful, compelling and meticulously researched' New StatesmanA new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocideDo Not Disturb is a dramatic recasting of the modern history of Africa's Great Lakes region, an area blighted by the greatest genocide of the twentieth century.

Examines President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his response to the year that he characterized as a ''year of a continuous nightmare''.

The world as we know it has been turned upside down by recent events but it's still a place where leadership is needed more than ever.

This edited book is an innovative collection of studies-pioneering scholarship systematically exploring the various features of debasement language used by political leaders in their speeches, statements, and remarks during parliamentary and other official as well as unofficial, private activities.

Explore the enduring legacy of Stephen Bantu Biko through the insightful Steve Biko Memorial Lectures, delivered by Africa's foremost scholars, artists, and leaders.

In this book, leading and emerging election scholars document the steps that state and local election officials took to augment their elections during the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of these changes.

Gaming the System takes an active approach to learning about American government, using novel, exciting, and highly instructive games to help students learn politics by living it.

Vaclav Klaus is President of the Czech Republic.

This biography of Sir Guy Carleton was first published in the famous Makers of Canada series in 1907, and re-issued in 1926 with supplementary notes incorporating later research by A.

This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers.

This is the first history of the cult of Mao that was used to ensure the loyalty of the people.

The Cowboy President: How the American West Transformed Theodore Roosevelt details how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still rated as one of the top five Presidents in American history.

This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political influence on the Internet.

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

Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality, in conflict with friend and foe alike, in this tumultuous political drama of his last ten years of public life.

He has been called Americas greatest ex-president, a man who lost the White House after one term but went on to become a respected spokesman for peace and human rights.

In 2007 and 2008, Barack Obama ran for president with a message of a shared purpose uniting all Americans, and was elected with expectations that he would usher in a new national culture under an approach grounded in public engagement that would transcend partisan divisions.

In the parliamentary system of government, manifestos constitute and represent an important aspect of the democratic electoral politics as statements of a party's ideology, response and policy.

Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world.

The updated bestselling biography—based on over six hundred interviews—and the inspiration for the Netflix documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe.

In Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership, Laurence M.

"e;The perfect book for the present moment.

Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison?

Provides an overview of the careers of the great military leaders and the critical political leaders of the American Civil War.

This book, the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa.