Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britains' greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister.
Históricamente, la enseñanza de la ciencia política ha relegado el liderazgo a un papel secundario, reduciéndolo a un conjunto de técnicas transaccionales o estrategias de uso del poder.
The first woman to serve in both houses of the New Mexico legislature, Pauline Eisenstadt has witnessed many exciting moments in the state's political history and made much of that history herself.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil's dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison.
Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature.
The Colombian activist Juan Gregorio Palechor (1923-1992) dedicated his life to championing indigenous rights in Cauca, a department in the southwest of Colombia, where he helped found the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca.
Conversations with Milosevic is a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict.
Some of today's best urban leaders don't work for the governmentthey can be found in nonprofit organizations that serve the working class and poor populations.
A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publicationAmerican presidents typically spend much of their first term trying to ensure a second term.
Alongside other classic cocktails such as the Old Fashioned, the Mint Julep, and the Martini, the Manhattan has been a staple of the sophisticated bar scene since the late nineteenth century.
"e;More than just a cookbook, it's a trip down memory lane, as the author skillfully takes us on a journey with each recipe, back to her beloved Kentucky.
"e;More than just a cookbook, it's a trip down memory lane, as the author skillfully takes us on a journey with each recipe, back to her beloved Kentucky.
With recipes and historical trivia included, "e;this spirited guide is as bracing as that classic combination of rye whiskey, sugar, bitters and orange zest"e; (Tucson Citizen).
Lincoln scholars explore the president's law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.
From action flicks to biopics to SNL skits, how presidents are portrayed on screen: "e;An interesting study of the real presidency and the reel presidency.
Despite serving his country for 50 years and being among the most qualified men to hold the office of president, James Monroe is an oft-forgotten Founding Father.
This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
Just as an archeologist can reassemble pot shards and draw inferences about the civilization that produced it, Ive examined a mass of verbal chunks left by Lincoln and people around him.
This book-the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort-brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective.
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry.
A "e;highly perceptive"e; analysis of the crisis of leadership in 21st-century America, written in "e;an exhilaratingly readable style"e; (Archie Brown, Oxford University, author of The Myth of the Strong Leader).
