Political leaders and leadership

He was a debt-ridden dandy, a mid-ranking novelist armed with enormous political ambition.

The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "e;the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T.

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.

While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia.

The eight people charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were tried by a military commission under military law.

In December 2004, the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election.

This seminar study examines the Eisenhower presidency.

When Waddy Bullion refers to his experience working for LBJ as a tax attorney and business advisor, he calls it "e;being in the boat.

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The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey.

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Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The Times Literary Supplement recently praised the Benjamin Disraeli Letters volumes as ‘a remarkable series … on its way to becoming one of the landmarks of Victorian-era scholarship.

A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever.

Honest and precise, everything about writing for children there is to know.

Following Stalin's death in 1953, association football clubs, as well as the informal supporter groups and communities which developed around them, were an important way for the diverse citizens of the multinational Soviet Union to express, negotiate and develop their identities, both on individual and collective levels.

This book explores Donald Trump's political communication as a candidate and in the first two years in office.

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 American Civil Liberties.

Bill Clinton's administration was filled with new policies and achievements for the nation's future, but those achievements were easily overshadowed by personal flaws and scandal.

One of the constant fascinations Mill holds for the general public as well as scholars derives from the early flowering of his genius.

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen.

Over the centuries, the question of "e;good"e; or "e;effective"e; governance has undergone several transformations and ramifications to fit within certain social, cultural and historical contexts.

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Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda.

Eastern Europe in the Post-War World (1961) examines the conditions in the 'satellites' of Eastern Europe before as well as after the Second World War.

This book examines the effects of preferential voting on intraparty electoral competition and voting behavior.

Evo Morales is one of the world's most controversial political leaders.

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.

This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy.

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Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world.

';How can the immigrant of yesterday be lionized as the very foundation of the nation's character, while the immigrant of today is often demonized as a threat to the nation's safety and stability?

The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history.

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Between 2003 and 2010, under President Lula, Celso Amorim was at the forefront of an important period in the history of Brazil's international relations-one in which the country practiced a newly assertive foreign policy, extending its diplomatic reach to the global stage.

Political humor has been a staple of late-night television for decades.

The 16th book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "e;King Bibi.

Theodore Roosevelt was a fascinating man.

From the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, several government reform movements succeeded in controlling traditional types of public corruption.

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10.

This Element presents ''lost world'' adventure fiction as a response to print culture''s nineteenth- and twenty-first-century automation.

This Element offers a new approach to the feminist historiography of printing as letterpress moves into a digital age.

One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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.