World Leaders Past & Present is a 25-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Catherine Bush, Leslie McGuire, Lois Markham, Herman J. Viola, Lawrence S. Kaplan, Francelia Butler, Dennis Wepman, Morgan Llywelyn, Perry Scott King, John Haney, Nancy Shuker, Douglas Kellner, Sean J. Dolan, ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER, Albert C. Gross, Pierre L. Horn, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, Renee Schwartzberg, and Alison Weir.