📚 Prime Ministers

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Parliamentary power profiles: the lives behind the despatch box, from Walpole’s rivals to the modern biography industry.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject prime ministers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Story of the Malakand Field Force	Winston S. Churchill	1898	86
Hitler	Alan Bullock	1704	67
La vie de Disraëli	André Maurois	1927	62
The life and times of Cavour	William Roscoe Thayer	1911	36
Thoughts and Adventures	Winston S. Churchill	1932	33
Melbourne	Lord David Cecil	1775	27
Peel	James Richard Thursfield	1891	24
The young Melbourne	Lord David Cecil	1939	24
Churchill	Martin Gilbert	1967	24
Jawaharlal Nehru	Jawaharlal Nehru	1936	21
Winston S. Churchill	Randolph S. Churchill	1966	21
The story of Gladstone's life	Justin McCarthy	1897	16
Jawaharlal Nehru	Sarvepalli Gopal	1975	15
The life of Henry John Temple, viscount Palmerston	Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer	1870	14
Clementine Churchill	Mary Soames	1979	14
Disraeli	André Maurois	1927	12
Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography	Jawaharlal Nehru	1936	12
Arthur James Balfour	Kenneth Young	1953	12
The path to power	Margaret Thatcher	1995	12
Churchill	Roy Jenkins	2001	12
Palmerston	Philip Guedalla	1926	11
Lord Beaconsfield	T. P. O'Connor	1879	10
Lord Beaconsfield	James Anthony Froude	1890	10
William Pitt the Younger	William Hague	2004	10
Churchill, a study in failure, 1900-1939	Robert Rhodes James	1970	9
My life	Golda Meir	1975	9
The Duke, being an account of the life & achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington ..	Richard Aldington	1943	8
Winston Churchill	Robert Lewis Taylor	1952	8
Winston Churchill	Piers Brendon	1984	8
Indira	Katherine Frank	2001	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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