Presidents & Heads of State

In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.

From the acclaimed author of Born in Blackness comes an extraordinary account of Africa's liberation from colonial oppression, a work that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of modern history.

Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation....

VIBE SHIFT! National Bestselling author Joe Concha hip checks the mainstream media to deliver the juicy truth about this important moment in history.

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done.

Churchill tells the story of how he escaped and made a daring overland crossing, travelling only at night to avoid detection....

On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, D.C. and was shot by a would-be assassin....

You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian....

Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish, she would have been doubly horrified that, once again, America's first family was struck by the Kennedy Curse....

Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, writes about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease, saying goodbye in stages....

Candid and compelling, A Bigger Picture is the definitive narrative of Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership....

Jacinda Ardern – Ex-Premierministerin von Neuseeland: Eine Ikone des Female Empowerment erzählt von ihrem Weg an die Macht. Für alle, die nach einer ...

In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....

Featuring a rich collection of personal memoirs, letters, notes, and reflections from some of America’s greatest figures, The Autobiography Collection brings together real historical documents for contemporary listeners in a stylish and accessible edition that brings history to life.

In the best-selling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography....

Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness.

Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew gathers some of the vivid memories of 37 people who have worked or interacted closely with Lee Kuan Yew in some way or other, from when he was at Raffles College in 1941 right up to his demise in 2015.

An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself....

The popularity of Teddy Roosevelt has only increased in the more than a century that passed since his term as president of the United States....

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation....

Trump Revealed offers the most thorough and wide-ranging examination of Donald Trump's public and private lives to date, from his upbringing in Queens to his astonishing rise....

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country....

This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap.

The book examines the relationship between the presidency and the sport, and argues through stories that the two naturally go together. Golf is the sport of presidents. It defines the presidency. It is a game of patience, concentration, focus, and moving forward toward a target. The job is about aim and guiding others toward an end goal amid the obstacle, and the job requires simplicity and making progress in as fewer moves as possible. Golf allows access to the president, and it is also a form of communication the leader uses to send subtle messages to the public.

He was born sick. He made himself strong. Then he made himself a legend. The Rough Rider is not just a biography — it’s a myth-forged blueprint. From asthma-ridden boyhood to battlefield glory, from the White House to the Amazon jungle, Theodore Roosevelt didn’t just live through history. He charged through it. This book doesn’t worship Teddy. It unpacks him. The decisions he made. The myth he crafted. The country he reshaped. Through war, wilderness, betrayal, and reinvention, Roosevelt carved himself into the story of America.

Winston Churchill was no ordinary statesman. He was a man of action and contradiction, of resilience and recklessness, of soaring vision and stubborn conviction. Winston Churchill: A Legacy of Leadership by Jasmine Dyggan offers an unflinching yet reverent portrait of one of history’s most fascinating and polarising figures. Across ten meticulously researched chapters and a compelling final conclusion, this biography journeys through the personal and political evolution of Churchill’s extraordinary life—from his early military escapades to his twilight years as a national icon.

The Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from bestselling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title―referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom―positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.

La vie de Charles de Gaulle est comme un fil tendu qui nous relie au XIXe siècle finissant, nous fait comprendre les tragédies du XXe siècle et ouvre sur celles que demain nous réserve. Dans une brève allusion à son enfance, l'auteur des Mémoires de guerre évoque « une certaine fierté anxieuse » qu'il éprouvait à l'égard de la France.