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These opposing documents, along with introductions which place the issues in political context, will enable students to debate the great issues of the day.

This resource covers thirty-seven key issues and initiatives of the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman presidencies.

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This one-stop resource for debating the central issues that shaped the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton presidencies provides the text of pro and con primary documents from the presidents and their opponents, plus helpful analysis to put the issues in context.

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This resource of primary documents and commentary covers the Taylor through Grant administrations by selecting and describing five to ten of the foremost issues of the day and showing the actual text of the president's position along with the opposing viewpoint.

The presidents from 1849-1877 were men of varied backgrounds and talents.

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Students will be able to debate the key political, social, and economic issues and initiatives of each President covered here by using this rich source of pro and con primary documents contemporary to the time.

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This work offers broad analysis of the first five presidential administrations and specific exerpts from original documents supporting and opposing the president's position. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe speak for themselves on key issues of their times.

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Suitable for historians or students of British politics during the post-war years, this book concentrates on the Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath years when the battle between the Civil Service and the Government was at its most intense.

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Each chapter in this book presents a unique case study evaluating a political leader or leaders. The contributors present research evaluating relationships between personality, leadership, decision-making and behaviour among political leaders.

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Aeron Davis looks at the growing crisis of leadership in Britain today. He argues that increasingly self-interested elites are not only damaging society they are destroying the basis of Establishment rule itself. The book, based on over 350 elite interviews, asks: how did we end up producing the leaders that got us here and what can we do about it

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The success of Vietnam's August Revolution of 1945 can be attributed in part to Ho Chi Minh's reconstitutive rhetoric, a form of rhetorical discourse that gave the Vietnamese people a new sense of identification.

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How should politicians act When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it When do virtues like toleration and willingness to compromise deteriorate into moral weakness This work answers these questions by exploring what a democratic polity needs from its leaders.

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Contents: Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process: 1. The Culture of the Laboratory. IV. Experiments and the Political Process: 2: Bridging the Gap. V. The Concept of Leadership. VI. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 1. VII. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 2. VI

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Mrs Milosevic defends the wars in the former Yugoslavia and declares her love for her husband. Riccardo Orizio has tracked down these fallen tyrants and thrown a new light on people whose names have become synonymous with misery, death and terror for entire nations.

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This book is not a biography of Margaret Thatcher. It is a study of how her reputation in both the domestic and international sphere was constructed by Thatcher and others over the course of her career.

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Why are Australian leaders so reluctant to acknowledge the power they have and unsure what to do with it Australian Leadership Paradox claims Australians have a serious problem with leadership. It explains the cultural roots of this problem, and ways we can become more purposeful leaders.

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This book paints 11 different portraits of the many "faces" of President George W. Which of Bush's characteristics, influences, or internal motivations were most responsible for this polarizing President's attitudes and decisions

This book presents 11 competing views of President George W.

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A hilarious and deeply irreverent take on the political life and times of our twenty-ninth prime minister and his stumbling government.

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"You will understand Africa differently after reading this book...the richly reported stories he tells to make his case are unforgettable." -William Finnegan.