World leaders past & present

A biography of the king and queen whose marriage led to the unification of Spain and who increased the country's power by conquering the Moors and sending Columbus to America.

An illustrated biography of the Islamic religious leader who became the chief political figure in Iran after the overthrow of the shah in 1979.

A biography of the woman who rose to political prominence after the death of her husband and was elected president of the Philippines in 1986.

Follows the life of the man who served in Chile as the first Marxist to be freely elected to lead a nation of the Western Hemisphere, until military leaders overthrew his government in 1973.

A biography of the Chinese leader who lost all his offices during the Chinese Cultural Revolution but later returned to power and recently retired from the Central Committee to the Communist Party.

Chronicles the early life, presidential campaign, term in office, and assassination of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

A biography of Ivan IV, the Terrible, the first Russian ruler to use the title Czar and who ranks as an outstanding ruler though he committed great cruelties.

Presents the eventful life of the Scottish queen, proclaimed so at the age of one week, who married three times and was beheaded for plotting against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Presents the life of the seventeenth-century French monarch known as the "Sun King.".

A biography of Andrew Jackson, frontiersman, lawyer, and seventh President of the United States.