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Doris Kearns Goodwin on how to be the greatest American president

Overcome adversity, nurture great ambition, and never aggrandise yourself – leadership lessons, from Lincoln to LBJ.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin on how to be the greatest American president

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The great experimenter: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s knack for political judgement

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The court case that Richard Nixon rigged

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Books

Kissinger the Kantian idealist? Maybe

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Natural rights and wrongs: Burke vs Paine

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Natural rights and wrongs

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left Yuval Levin Basic Books, 304pp,…

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The Unwinding by George Packer: How America became like Walmart

An impressive piece of work – but not a happy one.

By Alan Ryan

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