World leaders past & present

A biography of the man known as Ras Tafari, emperor of Ethiopia during a forty-four year period, who gave that country its first written constitution.

A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.

A biography of an Irish Nationalist leader who fought hard for home rule for Ireland.

A biography of the founder of fascism, who ruled Italy for almost twenty-one years, hoping to build a great empire but leaving it a shambles.

A biography of the scholar and statesman who helped found Czechoslovakia in 1918 and served as its first president from 1918 until 1935.

A biography of the Japanese emperor who, following World War II, approved a constitution that changed his role from divine ruler to "symbol of the state" with political control going to elected representatives.

Surveys the life of Eamon De Valera, three times prime minister and twice president of Ireland, who helped lead his country's struggle for independence.

A biography of the Prussian statesman who united the German people under one government and whose policies and influence were felt throughout Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A biography of the military leader who became president of Syria in 1970.

Describes the life of the Shah of Iran, his achievements and his downfall.