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World Leaders Past & Present Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of World Leaders Past & Present books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the World Leaders Past & Present series? Start with "Margaret Thatcher (By: Bernard Garfinkel)" (1985) and follow publication order through all 69 books.
The complete World Leaders Past & Present reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Margaret Thatcher (By: Bernard Garfinkel)
1985
Simón Bolívar (By: Dennis Wepman)
1985
Joseph Stalin (By: Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler)
1985
Hitler (By: Dennis Wepman)
1985
Napoleon Bonaparte (By: Leslie McGuire)
1985
Golda Meir (By: Karen McAuley)
1985
George Washington (By: Roger A. Bruns)
1986
John Calvin (By: Sally Stepanek)
1986
Indira Gandhi (By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,Francelia Butler)
1986
Thomas Jefferson (By: Roger A. Bruns)
1986
Charlemagne (By: Susan Banfield)
1986
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (By: Thomas G. Butson)
1986
Frederick the Great (By: Mary Kittredge)
1986
King Louis XIV (By: Pierre L. Horn)
1986
Andrew Jackson (By: Herman J. Viola)
1986
Catherine the Great (By: Leslie McGuire)
1986
William Gladstone (By: Eric Brand)
1986
Dwight D. Eisenhower (By: Peter Lars Sandberg)
1986
Oliver Cromwell (By: Lawrence S. Kaplan)
1986
Georges-Jacques Danton (By: Frank Dwyer)
1987
Muammar El-Qaddafi (By: Benjamin Kyle)
1987
Otto von Bismarck (By: Jonathan Rose)
1987
Sun Yat-Sen (By: Jeffrey Barlow)
1987
Julius Caesar (By: Roger A. Bruns)
1987
Woodrow Wilson (By: J. Perry Leavell Jr.)
1987
Joan of Arc (By: Susan Banfield)
1987
Elizabeth I (By: Catherine Bush)
1987
Leon Blum (By: Stephen Eric Bronner)
1987
Gandhi (By: Catherine Bush)
1987
Juan Perón
1987
John F. Kennedy (By: Marta Randall)
1987
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1987
Richard Nixon (By: C. Peter Ripley)
1987
Marc Antony (By: Mary Kittredge)
1987
Leonid Brezhnev (By: Ina L. Navazelskis)
1987
Benjamin Disraeli (By: Carol McGuirk)
1987
Hirohito (By: Karen Severns)
1988
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (By: James D. Cockcroft)
1988
Ernesto Che Guevara (By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,Douglas Kellner)
1988
Chiang Kai-Shek (By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,Sean J. Dolan)
1988
James I (By: Frank Dwyer)
1988
Mother Teresa (By: Joan Graff Clucas)
1988
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (By: John Haney)
1988
Augustus Caesar (By: Nancy Zinsser Walworth)
1988
Judas Maccabeus (By: E.H. Fortier)
1988
Henry of Navarre (By: Albert C. Gross)
1988
Lyndon Johnson (By: Anthony E. Kaye)
1988
Harry S. Truman (By: J. Perry Leavell Jr.)
1988
Yasir Arafat (By: Rebecca Stefoff)
1988
Klemens von Metternich (By: John Von Der Heide)
1988
Willy Brandt (By: Tom Viola)
1988
James Madison (By: J. Perry Leavell Jr.)
1988
Faisal (By: Rebecca Stefoff)
1989
Jimmy Carter (By: Ed Slavin)
1989
Lech Walesa (By: Tony Kaye)
1989
Marquis de Lafayette (By: Pierre L. Horn)
1989
Nelson and Winnie Mandela (By: John J. Vail)
1989
James Monroe (By: Charles Wetzel)
1989
Peter the Great (By: Kathleen McDermott)
1990
Thomas Paine (By: John J. Vail)
1990
Wojciech Jaruzelski (By: Lynn Berry)
1990
Sadat (By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.)
1990
Churchill (By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.)
1990
Alexander the Great (By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.)
1990
Pol Pot (By: Rebecca Stefoff)
1990
Alexander Dubcek (By: Ina Navazelskis)
1991
Robert E. Lee (By: Warren Brown)
1992
Ronald Reagan (By: Renee Schwartzberg)
1999
Pope John Paul II (By: Timothy Walch)
2005
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