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By: David Bodanis

ISBN: 9780349128191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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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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By: Craig Fehrman

ISBN: 9781476788531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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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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By: Catherine Fletcher

ISBN: 9780099586944
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Victor D Hanson

ISBN: 9781541673540
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Basic Books
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Why America needed--and needs--President Donald J. Trump


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By: Jacob F. Field

ISBN: 9781782439721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2019
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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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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By: Michael Peel

ISBN: 9781786078254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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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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By: Michael Peel

ISBN: 9781786076595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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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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By: Sebastian Payne

ISBN: 9781035016556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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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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By: Sebastian Payne

ISBN: 9781035016563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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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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By: Anna Fifield

ISBN: 9781529387230
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: John Murray Press
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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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By: Simon Hoggart

ISBN: 9781843546795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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'Simon Hoggart is the P. G. Wodehouse of Westminster.' -- P. J. O'Rourke


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By: OH

ISBN: 9781911610298
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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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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By: Archie Brown

ISBN: 9780099554851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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* UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR *

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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By: Brian Lamb

ISBN: 9781541774353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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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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By: Brian Lamb

ISBN: 9781541774339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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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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By: Peter Hennessy

ISBN: 9780140283938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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By: Steve Richards

ISBN: 9781786495884
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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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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By: Niccolo Machiavelli

ISBN: 9780099518495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Edmund Morris

ISBN: 9781400069651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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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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By: Max Boot

ISBN: 9781788542685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Marvin Kalb

ISBN: 9780815724933
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Dick Leonard

ISBN: 9781784533694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kenneth D. Ackerman

ISBN: 9781640090033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Counterpoint
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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


(Paperback)

By: Jeffrey Toobin

ISBN: 9781847926470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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