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The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers From Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson

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Editors:
  1. Michael Patrick Cullinane

    1. Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton, London, UK

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  2. Martin Farr

    1. School of History, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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  • Offers comprehensive coverage of the personal relationships between presidents and prime ministers from Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson

  • Explores the importance of personal relations in diplomacy and statecraft

  • Provides new insights into twentieth-century transatlantic history and politics, and the emergence of the modern, public leader

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Patrick Cullinane
    Pages 1-6

  3. Presidents and Prime Ministers

    • Kathleen Burk
    Pages 7-34

  4. Grover Cleveland and Lord Salisbury: A Shared History

    • Andrew Ehrhardt, Charlie Laderman
    Pages 35-56

  5. Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur Balfour: Friendship Without Familiarity

    • Michael Patrick Cullinane
    Pages 57-77

  6. Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George: Uncongenial Allies

    • John A. Thompson
    Pages 79-99

  7. Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain: Amelioration of Rivalry in the 1930s

    • B. J. C. McKercher
    Pages 101-132

  8. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill: Power Relations

    • A. Warren Dockter
    Pages 133-155

  9. Harry S. Truman and Clement Attlee: “Trouble Always Brings Us Together”

    • Clive Webb
    Pages 157-178

  10. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden: A Common Cause?

    • Justin Quinn Olmstead
    Pages 179-197

  11. John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan: Dependence and Interdependence

    • Nigel Ashton
    Pages 199-216

  12. Lyndon Johnson and Harold Wilson: Pragmatist v. Pragmatist

    • Sylvia Ellis
    Pages 217-239

  13. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Harold Wilson and James Callaghan: Personal Diplomacy, Friendship and US-UK Relations in the 1970s

    • Todd Carter
    Pages 241-271

  14. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Not So “Special” Relationship?

    • James Cooper
    Pages 273-295

  15. George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and John Major: A Tale of Two Relationships

    • Victoria Honeyman
    Pages 297-318

  16. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Tony Blair: The Search for Order

    • James Ellison
    Pages 319-346

  17. Barack Obama and David Cameron: The Ostensible Relationship

    • Martin Farr
    Pages 347-381

  18. Donald Trump and Theresa May: The Incredible Relationship

    • Martin Farr
    Pages 383-415

  19. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson: The Unfulfilled Relationship

    • Martin Farr
    Pages 417-437

  20. Conclusion

    • Gill Bennett
    Pages 439-450
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About this book

This handbook examines the personal relationships between American presidents and British prime ministers. It aims to determine how personal diplomacy shaped the Anglo-American relationship and whether individual leaders made the relationship “special.” From the great rapprochement of the 1890s to the Cold War and contemporary transatlantic rapport, the Anglo-American relationship has been one of global significance, making presidents and prime ministers central to international security, trade and commerce, culture, and communication. Naturally, it explores the ideas and convictions of presidents and prime ministers, the political parties they led, as well as the political images constructed in the media and how the aura of the Anglo-American relationship might differ from the reality. With a deeper understanding of these political leaders and the relationship they forge with their counterparts, we come that much closer to appreciating the dynamics of transatlantic statecraft. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton, London, UK

    Michael Patrick Cullinane

  • School of History, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Martin Farr

About the editors

Martin Farr is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Newcastle University. He has published widely on British politics and public life since the First World War, and co-edits the Palgrave series, Britain and the World.     


Michael Patrick Cullinane is Professor of US History at the University of Roehampton, London. He has published several books, including Remembering Theodore Roosevelt (Palgrave, 2021) and The Open Door Era: US Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (2017). He edits the book series New Perspectives on the American Presidency.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers From Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson

  • Editors: Michael Patrick Cullinane, Martin Farr

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72276-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72275-3Published: 14 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72278-4Published: 15 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72276-0Published: 13 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 495

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Modern History, Political History, History of Britain and Ireland, US History

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