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A thrilling study of the key elements of great - and fair - leadership, illuminated by real stories from history

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A wide-ranging collection of presidential writings is comprised of history-shaping and lesser-known speeches, excerpts, and personal notes, from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and FDR's "Infamy" speech to JFK's "Profiles in Courage" and Barack Obama's "Dreams of My Father."

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A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year

1531 after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a half-negro maidservant rides into Florence.

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Why America needed--and needs--President Donald J. Trump

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This fascinating and highly entertaining book contains little-known anecdotes, facts and details from the life of Winston Churchill who, in 2002, was voted the Greatest Briton of all time.

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We are not entering a new era of fake news we are finally facing up to the world we live in.

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We are not entering a new era of fake news we are finally facing up to the world we live in.

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The sensational inside story of Boris Johnson's last days in power and his sudden, dramatic downfall.

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The Fall of Boris Johnson is the sensational inside story of Boris Johnson's last days in power and his sudden, dramatic downfall, by acclaimed author, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times, Sebastian Payne.

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The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.

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'Simon Hoggart is the P. G. Wodehouse of Westminster.' -- P. J. O'Rourke

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Whether seen as a bumbling buffoon or a charismatic leader, no one can deny Boris has a ready wit and a flamboyant way with words.

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CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016

Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable.

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The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's popular Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership.

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The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's popular Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership.

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Explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on unparalleled access to many of the leading figures, as well as the key civil servants and journalists of each period, the author has built up a picture of the hidden nexus of influence and patronage surrounding the office.

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A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world - and what makes them special - by a seasoned political journalist.

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Machiavellis highly influential treatise on political power

'It is far safer to be feared than loved...'

The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality.

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Described by the "Chicago Tribune" as "a classic, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time.

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A chronicling of CIA operative Edward Lansdale, this biography definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam war.

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Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. This book deals with this topic.

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Who would have thought that Leon Trotsky spent the two months leading up to the 1917 Russian Revolution not in Russia, but in New York City

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