John E. Findling, Frank W. Thackeray

Preface
Dean Acheson
John Quincy Adams
Konrad Adenauer
Alexander I
Otto von Bismarck
James G. Blaine
Willy Brandt
George Canning
Viscount Castlereagh
Fidel Castro
Catherine the Great
Count Cavour
Neville Chamberlain
Charles V
Winston Churchill
Oliver Cromwell
Adam Czartoryski
Charles de Gaulle
Benjamin Disraeli
Luís Drago
John Foster Dulles
Elizabeth I
Benjamin Franklin
Frederick the Great
J. William Fulbright
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dag Hammarskjold
Adolf Hitler
Thomas Jefferson
Wenzel Kaunitz
George F. Kennan
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
David Lloyd George
Louis XIV
Niccolò Machiavelli
James Madison
George Marshall
Clemens von Metternich
Jean Monnet
Benito Mussolini
Napoleon I
Napoleon III
Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger
Viscount Palmerston
Lester Pearson
Peter the Great
Philip II
William Pitt, the Elder
William Pitt, the Younger
James K. Polk
Cardinal Richelieu
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Robert Schuman
William Seward
Joseph Stalin
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Tito (Josip Broz)
Carlos R. Tobar
William II
Woodrow Wilson
Appendexices
:A: Historical Figures
B: Conferences and Treaties
C: Diplomatic, Political, and Military Events
D: Organizations and Terms
E: Heads of State
Index

Statesmen Who Changed the World provides extensive essays on more than 70 statesmen of the Western world, covering the time period from the 15th century to the present. Some of the statesmen included were heads of state; others held ministerial positions in foreign affairs; a few were neither heads of state nor foreign ministers. All influenced or changed the world in which they lived.
Each essay includes a thorough and insightful biographical sketch covering the subject's life and career with particular emphasis on the subject's involvement in international affairs. In addition, each essay provides a bibliographical essay describing the available archival materials, works written by and about the subject, and the most recent scholarship. It concludes with a bibliographical checklist. Appendixes include glossaries of terms and a listing of heads of state. The book is fully indexed.