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  • Benito Mussolini and the Art of Tyranny

    Fascist Italy’s Infamous Dictator

    by William Nester ...
    Tyranny's core insight reveals how a dictator's ascent reshaped politics, power, and society.The art of tyranny involves aspirants taking and keeping uninhibited, arbitrary power over others. Benito Mussolini is among the world’s most recognizable tyrants with his scowl, jutting jaw, bald dome, booming voice, chopping fists, squat body, and wide stance. He founded the Fascist movement dedicated to ... Read more

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  • Britain's Rise to Global Superpower in the Age of Napoleon

    by William Nester ...
    The first study to explore all Britain's key land and sea campaigns from 179–1815 and the two military geniuses who vanquished France.The art of power consists of getting what one wants. That is never more challenging than when a nation is at war. Britain fought a nearly nonstop war against first revolutionary then Napoleonic France from 1793 to 1815. During those twenty-two years, the government ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Art of Leadership

    Battling the Great Depression and the Axis Powers

    by William Nester ...
    Scholar William Nester explores Franklin D. Roosevelt's character, personality, and presidential power. After their independence and civil wars, Americans never faced a greater threat than the sixteen years of global depression followed by global war from 1929 to 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president for the last dozen of those years, during which he led the nation first to alleviate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Putin's Virtual War

    Russia's Subversion and Conversion of America, Europe and the World Beyond

    by William Nester ...
    A look at the Russian leader's successful use of hard military and economic power and soft psychological power through information warfare, or "fake news."Vladimir Putin has tightly ruled Russia since 31 December 1999, and will firmly assert power from the Kremlin for the foreseeable future. Many fear and loath him for his brutality, for ordering opponents imprisoned on trumped up charges and even ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy

    How War and Hubris Determined the Rise and Fall of the French Empire

    by William Nester ...
    A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon, however, the arts of war and diplomacy meshed. Napoleon ... Read more

    $10.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876

    by William Nester ...
    Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant.In contrast, history sees Abraham Lincoln as a giant in character and deeds. During his ... Read more

    $34.95 USD

  • The Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power, 1815-1848

    by William Nester ...
    As William Nester asserts in The Age of Jackson, it takes quite a leader to personify an age. A political titan for thirty-three years (1815-1848), Andrew Jackson possessed character, beliefs, and acts that dominated American politics. Although Jackson returned to his Tennessee plantation in March 1837 after serving eight years as president, he continued to overshadow American politics. Two of his ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Napoleon and the Art of Leadership

    How a Flawed Genius Changed the History of Europe and the World

    by William Nester ...
    This deep dive into the mind of the complex, controversial political and military leader is "a great addition to the field of Napoleonics" ( Journal of Military History).No historical figure has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? An insatiable warmonger or a defender of France against the aggression of the other great powers? Kind or ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France

    by William R. Nester ...
    The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Epic History of the American West

    From the First Peoples to the Present

    by William Nester ...
    Examines the American West's complex legacy, blending traditional and revisionist perspectives on its myths, conflicts, and injustices.The American West evokes powerful imagery—warriors on horseback, cowboys in saloons, and pioneers in wagons heading westward. It symbolizes freedom, reinvention, and the American Dream. However, this idealized image obscures the complex, often violent history of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny

    One of History’s Most Feared Dictators

    by William Nester ...
    Explores how Stalin’s regime exemplified authoritarian power, its methods, and enduring global influence.Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny examines authoritarian rule, revealing how tyrants sustain power through a mix of comfort, terror, love, and fear, often convincing their subjects of their divine purpose. Such leaders build systems of loyalists and subservient institutions, enabling ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Unending Civil War

    The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown through to Recent Elections

    by William Nester ...
    Explores the Civil War’s related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation’s history.The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war’s issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will persist until the end of time. The war itself was an Iliad of brilliant ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus