Table of Contents

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

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Provides thorough, insightful essays on more than 60 great Western statesmen--those who changed the world in which they lived.

About the Author

FRANK W. THACKERAY is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast and the author of Antecedents of Revolution: Alexander I and the Polish Congress Kingdom, 1815-1825 (1980).

JOHN E. FINDLING is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast./e His most recent books include a Historical Dictionary of World Fairs and Expositions, 1857-1988 (Greenwood, 1990) and Dictionary of American Diplomatic History, second edition (Greenwood, 1989).

Reviews

?. . . the coverage of Statesmen Who Changed the World is comprehensive, and the treatments, on the whole, are balanced. Its key strength may lie in its singling out for attention lesser-known statesmen for beginning historians and other scholars. It is an appropriate selection for university and other research libraries.?-Reference Books Bulletin

." . . the coverage of Statesmen Who Changed the World is comprehensive, and the treatments, on the whole, are balanced. Its key strength may lie in its singling out for attention lesser-known statesmen for beginning historians and other scholars. It is an appropriate selection for university and other research libraries."-Reference Books Bulletin