Political Leader Biographies

First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton

By David Maraniss

The president's keepers: Those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison

By Jacques Pauw

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

By Richard McGregor

How to steal a city: The battle for Nelson Mandela Bay: An inside account

By Crispian Olver

Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown

By John Campbell

Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed to the Labour Leadership

By Rosa Prince

The British General Election of 2019

By Robert Ford, Tim Bale, Will Jennings, Paula Surridge

Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

By Richard Seymour

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

By Prof. William Taubman

How They Broke Britain

By James O'Brien

British Prime Ministers

By Robert J. Parker

Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman

By Susanne Schattenberg (University of Bremen, Germany)

A Voyage Around the Queen: The new Sunday Times bestselling biography of Queen Elizabeth II, from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Brown, Craig

The Corbyn Effect

By Mark Perryman, Paul Mason

Key Concepts in Leadership

By Jonathan Gosling, Ian Sutherland, Stephanie Jones

Harold Wilson

By Ben Pimlott, Peter Hennessy

Obama: An Oral History

By Brian Abrams

Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil?

By Derrick O'Keefe

In Search of Michael Howard

By Crick, Michael

Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71

By Douglas Brinkley

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

By Mark Gevisser

Khrushchev: The Years in Power

By Roy A. Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev

The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

By Richard Pipes, Y. A. Buranov

Gorbachev, Yeltsin, & Putin: Political Leadership in Russia (TM)s Transition

By Archie Brown

Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective: Essays in Honour of Archie Brown

By Alex Pravda (Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford)

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary

By Dmitriai Antonovich Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

By Brian MacArthur

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography: v.1: 1889-1947

By Sarvepalli Gopal

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

By Bill Clinton