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The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age

By Archie Brown

Lincoln

By D. Herbert

I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History

By Ferdie Addis

The Ashdown Diaries: v.1: 1988-1997

By Paddy Ashdown

The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith

By Ian Douglas Smith

The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson

By Harry Mount

The Institutional Presidency: Organizing and Managing the White House from FDR to Clinton

By John P. Burke (University of Vermont)

The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945

By Peter Hennessy

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

The Pike

By Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Prezza

By John Prescott

The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration

By Joseph R. Blaney, William L. Benoit

The Lion House: Discover the life of Suleyman the Magnificent, the most feared man of the sixteenth century

By Christopher de Bellaigue

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

By Christopher Catherwood

The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France

By Ray Argyle, Maurice Vaisse

Andrew Jackson

By Robert V. Remini

John Adams

By David McCullough

Truman

By David McCullough

Theodore Rex

By Edmund Morris

The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story

By Catherine Fletcher

Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World

By Bruce K. Rutherford

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

By Sir Lawrence Freedman

Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

By Ferdinand Mount

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

By Timothy Garton Ash

Karl Marx

By Wheen, Francis

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century

By Elizabeth Filippouli

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians: Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year

By Isabel Hardman (Author)

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

By Stephanie Grisham

Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

By Anjan Sundaram