Presidents & Heads of State

What makes a leader truly great? Is it simply a matter of management style and personality? Or is it character that matters most? Moral Visions takes an insightful look into America's leaders of the past to answer these questions and demonstrates that...

More than any other American historical figure, Abraham Lincoln towers over the global landscape, a leader who spoke-and continues to speak-to people around the world. The Global Lincoln tells the unknown and remarkable story of this great president's...

From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader--and what does not.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505431Author Con CoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx.About the AuthorJoseph J. Ellis is the best-selling author of twelve previous books,...

A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the 'New South', Carter's strongest support emanated from his ability to communicate directly to voters who were...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969467Author Alan Pell CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283g

With groundbreaking interviews, behind-the-scenes reporting, and never-before-seen photos, All the President's Women records 43 new allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump. During his 2016 presidential run, the revelation of the Access...

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On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Parliament to deliver his first speech as prime minister. German troops were advancing across Europe Neville Chamberlain's government had fallen three days earlier. Churchill needed to prove...

As ""Savior of the Union"" and the ""Great Emancipator,"" Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's assertion that Lincoln was the ""white man's...

Jimmy Carter has baffled the public from his first bid for elective office in racially divided rural Georgia through his postpresidential career as a global peacemaker and human rights activist. Is he a moral visionary or a well-meaning but sometimes...

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An internationally noted clinical psychologist offers readers the first psychological biography of Barack Obama. The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography is the first complete psychological biography of President Barack Obama written by a...

Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain's other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza enacted a series of changes...

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis reveals how a previously little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany after the First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752285Author Ulysses S. GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 885g

Volume 2 is concerned largely with Washington's inaugural jouney to New York and his initial activites as president upon his arrival. The documents, with annotations, chronicle the public adulation and the elaborate receptions and public addresses that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674733947Author Henry Wilkinson BragdonFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 943g

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This book is an insight to the time and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan and is dedicated to promoting the legacy of President Ronald Reagan, to fulfilling the vision of his life's work and to ensure that America's future remains bright. To realize...

Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the...

Some presidents throw out baseball's first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball's March Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays...

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140773Author Kevin J FernlundFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 386g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981819334Author John G SotosFormat HardbackPage Count 506Imprint Mt. Vernon Book SystemsPublisher Mt. Vernon Book SystemsWeight(grams) 178g

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Setting the World Ablaze is a biographical study of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and their struggle to erect a new nation. The three sections of Ferling's study chronologically examine major epochs in the lives of the three men:...

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By tracing George Washington's deliberate development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon, Paul Longmore answers the riddle of Washington's simultaneous fame and aloofness, arriving at a portrait of Washington as a self-fashioning...

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for...

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought "moral values" was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996955478Author Michael HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Henselstone Verlag LLCPublisher Henselstone Verlag LLCWeight(grams) 445g

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