Political leaders and leadership

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Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II).

Just Watch Me, was the expression used by Trudeau when challenged by a reporter regarding his use of power during the FLQ crisis in Canada in 1970.

After three deadly years of fighting, President Abraham Lincoln had seen a little progress in the West against the Confederacy, but in the main theater of operations, Virginia, the lines were almost exactly where they had been when the American Civil War started.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most important and influential works in American history.

This is a story written over a decade ago.

Search for Boris Johnson in this eye-boggling illustrated adventure!

A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise.

Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian CowenDespite a high profile at the centre of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader.

Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an enigma.

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government.

The son of a carpenter, Edward Heath broke the patrician mould of Tory leaders.

The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.

One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.

Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election' The United States of America is in the midst of a deepening crisis for their democracy.

'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.

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'The author brings to this detailed study of the first six months of Margaret Thatcher's premiership invaluable political experience and a first-rate analytical mind' - Mail on Sunday
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A fascinating examination of the leadership of Britain's most controversial post-war Prime Minister from historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng

Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister in 1979, the first woman to hold the position, and the first woman in the Western world to lead a nation.

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Two-term governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam reveals how faith--too often divisive and contentious--can be a redemptive and unifying presence in the public square.

As Britain's first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brought about the biggest social and political revolution in the nation's post-war history.

The complete life of Margaret Thatcher in one volume.

In SADDAM HUSSEIN: THE POLITICS OF REVENGE, the author draws on his own knowledge of and extensive contacts within the Arab world to produce both a thorough biography and a penetrating psychological profile of the most powerful and unpredictable man in the world today.

In this meticulously researched and iconoclastic work, Said Aburish, the internationally respected Palestinian political analyst and writer, turns the popular western perception of Yasser Arafat upside-down.

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWith extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.

The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman?

Vaclav Klaus is President of the Czech Republic.

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

Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone.

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived.

The political BONFIRE OF VANITIES: a novel based on the Clinton campaign which has become the most controversial book for years.

Machiavelli s highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to be feared than loved.

The first volume of Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary was described by Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph as 'the best account of Harold Wlson's last days'; 'the sheer scale and detail are fascinating' wrote Peter Riddell in the Times Literary Supplement.

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Was Napoleon the 'heir' of the French Revolution, the great consolidator of its reforms, or did he distort and even abandon its principles?

The true nature of Mussolini's foreign policy during the late interwar period has been the subject of considerable controversy.

How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it againThe liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power-and also its biggest failures.

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

The first major biography of the 1972 U.

A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527).

The life and times of one of the most provocative thinkers of the twentieth centuryWorldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O.

The 526 documents printed in this volume run from 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814.

The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life.

What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi?

Almost a decade ago, author and educator William J.

It's been two decades since the fall of apartheid, a quarter century since the liberation of Eastern European states, five decades since the death of American ';Jim Crow,' and seventy-plus years since the beginning of the emancipation of the African states.