Prin⋅ci⋅pal -noun: A person who takes a leading part in any activity, as a play; chief actor or doer.
This is a group consisting only of books written by those people who were actually involved in the crafting or implementation of policies: no commentators, no journalists, and no third party reports. Furthermore, the principal must...
more »Prin⋅ci⋅pal -noun: A person who takes a leading part in any activity, as a play; chief actor or doer.
This is a group consisting only of books written by those people who were actually involved in the crafting or implementation of policies: no commentators, no journalists, and no third party reports. Furthermore, the principal must write about the issues he or she was involved with i.e. a city mayor writing about foreign policy decisions would not qualify. However, a book written by a person who later becomes a principal involved in the matters covered by the same book does qualify, for instance Winston Churchill wrote "The Story of the Malakand Field Force" as a journalist, but later became Prime Minister and dealt with the same issues.
Additionally, an "expert" is not a principal. A book written by a person with expertise in the field of media, medicine, military affairs, finance or another politically relevant field would not qualify unless that person were principally involved in the crafting and/or implementation of a policy. Similarly, "coverage" is not involvement; a journalist who is principally involved in the coverage of a political or historical event is not a principal with very rare exceptions, see: Miller, Judith.
Finally, autobiographies must be written by a person who was involved in the crafting or implementation of policy; the autobiography of George W. Bush would qualify, the autobiography of Rush Limbaugh would not.
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