| | | | Part I Ambition and the Recognition of Leadership |
| 1 | | | Abraham |
| | Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. President. aka: Abe. |
| | Thomas | Lincoln | Abraham's father. |
| | Nancy | Hanks | Abraham's mother. |
| | Sarah | | Abraham's sister. |
| | Sarah B. | Johnston | Abraham's stepmother. |
| | David Herbert | Donald | Abraham's biographer. |
| | Nathaniel | Grigsby | Abraham's friend. |
| | Josiah | Crawford | Abraham's acquaintance. |
| | William | Herndon | Abraham's junior law partner. |
| | Henry Clay | Whitney | Abraham's friend. |
| | Sophie | Hanks | Abraham's cousin. |
| | John | Stuart | Abraham's fellow legislator. |
| | George | Forquer | American politician. |
| | Jesse | Thomas | American Texas blues guitarist and singer. |
| | William | Stoddart | Scottish physician, author and "spiritual traveller". |
| | DeWitt | Clinton | American politician. |
| | Elijah P. | Lovejoy | American journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. |
| | Alexander the Great | | King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. |
| | Julius | Caesar | Roman general and statesman. |
| | Napoleon | Bonaparte | French general and emperor. |
| 2 | | | Theodore |
| | Theodore | Roosevelt | 26th U.S. President. aka: Teedie |
| | Joe | Murray | American animator, writer, illustrator, producer, director. |
| | Horatio | Nelson | British Royal Navy Admiral. |
| | Theodore Sr. | | Teedie's father. aka: Thee. |
| | Corinne | | Teedie's younger sister. |
| | James F. | Cooper | American writer. |
| | Elliot | | Teedie's younger brother. |
| | Bamie | | Teedie's older sister. |
| | Martha | Bulloch | Teedie's mother. aka: Mittie. |
| | John James | Audubon | American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. |
| | Arthur | Cutler | Theodore's former tutor. |
| | Rutherford B. | Hayes | 19th president of the United States. |
| | Alice Hathaway | Lee | Teedie's wife. aka: Baby Lee. |
| | Bill | Sewall | Teedie's Maine friend. |
| | Bret | Harte | American short story writer and poet. |
| | Valentine | Young | A storekeeper. |
| | Elihu | Root | Served as Secretary of State under Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. |
| | Theodore | Dwight | American lawyer and journalist. |
| | Joseph H. | Choate | American lawyer and diplomat. |
| | Jacob | Riis | American reporter, social reformer, and photographer. |
| | Theodoric R. | Westbrook | U.S. Representative from New York. |
| | Jay | Gould | American railroad magnate and financier. |
| | Samuel | Gompers | American labor leader. |
| 3 | | | Franklin |
| | Franklin | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| | John Edward | Mack | American psychiatrist, writer, and professor. |
| | Edward J. | Perkins | One of first Blacks to hold senior posts in the State Department. |
| | Sara | | Franklin's mother. |
| | Lewis S. | Chanler | American lawyer and politician. |
| | Tom | Leonard | Scottish poet, writer and critic. |
| | Richard | Neustadt | American political scientist. |
| | Oliver Wendell | Holmes Jr. | Served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of U.S. |
| | James | | Franklin's father. |
| | John | Boettiger Jr. | Sara's great-grandson. |
| | Frederick | Delano | Franklin's uncle. |
| | Walter | Benjamin | German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. |
| | Winston | Churchill | Former British Prime Minister. |
| | Grace | Tully | Personal Secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| | Frances | Perkins | Served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor. |
| | Samuel | Rosenman | American lawyer, judge and presidential speechwriter. |
| | Arthur | Dumper | A Latin and mathematics master at St. Paul's prep school. |
| | Eleanor | Roosevelt | Franklin's wife. |
| | Endicott | Peabody | American politician from Massachusetts. |
| | A. Lawrence | Lowell | U.S. educator and legal scholar. |
| | William | McKinley | 25th President of the United States. |
| | Anna 1 | | Eleanor's mother. |
| | Marie | Souvestre | French educator. |
| | John | Schlosser | A Republican senator. |
| | Charles Francis | Murphy | American political figure. aka: Boss Murphy. |
| | Billy | Sheehan | A machine politician. |
| | James Aloysius | O'Gorman | One-term United States Senator from New York. |
| | Timothy | Sullivan | American politician from New York. aka: Big Tim. |
| | Wilson | Wilson | 28th President of the United States. |
| | Josephus | Daniels | American newspaper editor and publisher. |
| | Franklin K. | Lane | U.S. lawyer and politician served as secretary of the interior. |
| | Charles | McCathy | Franklin's private secretary. |
| | Louis | Howe | American reporter for the New York Herald. |
| | Emory S. | Land | An officer in the United States Navy. |
| | John Davis | Long | Massachusetts governor, Congressman; Secretary of the Navy. |
| | James M. | Cox | The 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio. |
| | Stephen | Early | U.S. journalist and government official. |
| | Marvin H. | McIntyre | Presidential Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). |
| | Missy | LeLand | Franklin's private secretary. |
| | Harry Lloyd | Hopkins | The 8th Secretary of Commerce of the United States. |
| 4 | | | Lyndon |
| | Lyndon B. | Johnson | 36th U.S. President. |
| | Pat M. | Neff | The 28th Governor of Texas. |
| | Sam | Johnson | Lyndon's father. |
| | Welly | Hopkins | Long-time friend and political associate of LBJ. |
| | Wright | Patman | Served 24 consecutive terms in the US House of Rep .for Texas. |
| | Rebekah | Baines | Lyndon's mother. |
| | Henry W. | Longfellow | American poet and educator. |
| | Alfred | Tennyson | 1st Baron Tennyson FRS was an English poet. |
| | Samuel Ealy | Johnson Sr. | Lyndon's grandfather. aka: Sam. |
| | Cecil | Evans | Lyndon's acquaintance. |
| | Robert | Caro | American journalist and author. |
| | Manuel | Sanchez | Lyndon's acquaintance. |
| | George | Johnson | Lyndon's uncle. |
| | Luther | Jones | One of Johnson's aides. |
| | Gene | Latimer | One of Johnson's aides. |
| | Richard M. | Kleberg Sr. | A seven-term member of the US House of Rep. from Texas. |
| | Claudia | Taylor | Lyndon's wife. aka: Lady Bird. |
| | Samuel T. | Rayburn | Served as the 43rd Speaker of the US House of Representatives. |
| | Thomas | Conally | Represented Texas in both US Senate and the House of Rep. |
| | Bill | Deason | Lyndon's old friend. |
| | Herbert Ray | Roberts | Represented Texas's 4th congressional district. |
| | William T. | Sherman | American General, businessman, educator, and author. |
| | James | Buchanan | 15th President of the United States. |
| | Alvin Jacob | Wirtz | A lawyer and undersecretary to the Department of the Interior. |
| | Mary | Rather | Wirtz's secretary. |
| | Carroll | Keach | Lyndon's driver. |
| | Tommy | Corcoran | White House aide. |
| | John M. | Carmody | Administrator of the REA and the Federal Works Agency. |
| | Leon | Keyserling | American economist. |
| | Jim | Rowe | One of Lyndon's acquaintances. |
| | Arthur | Goldschmidt | One of Lyndon's acquaintances. |
| | Abraham | Fortas | United States Supreme Court Justice aka: Abe. |
| | Elizabeth | | Jim Rowe's wife. |
| | | | Part II Adversity and Growth |
| 5 | | | Abraham Lincoln |
| | Warren G. | Bennis | American scholar, organizational consultant and author. |
| | Robert | Thomas | A writer. |
| | Mary | Todd | Abraham Lincoln's wife. |
| | Henry | Clay | Represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and House of Rep. |
| | Joshua | Speed | Abraham's best friend. |
| | Ann | Rutledge | Abraham's first love. |
| | Orville H. | Browning | An attorney in Illinois and a politician. |
| | Stephen | Logan | The leading lawyer in the county. |
| | John | Hardin | The son of a U.S. senator. |
| | Edward D. | Baker | American politician, served in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| | James K. | Polk | 11th president of the United States. |
| | Zachary | Taylor | 12th President of the United States. |
| | Hannibal | Hamlin | 15th Vice President of the United States. |
| | David | Wilmot | Served as Rep. and Senator for Pennsylvania and as a Judge. |
| | William H. | Seward | Served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. |
| | Wendell | Phillips | American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans and lawyer. |
| | Robert | Toombs | American politician from Georgia. |
| | Stephen A. | Douglas | American politician and lawyer from Illinois. |
| | Ralph Waldo | Emerson | American philosopher, essayist, and poet. |
| | Socrates | | Greek philosopher from Athens. |
| | Pythagoras | | Ionian Greek philosopher and the founder of Pythagoreanism. |
| | Norman B. | Judd | American congressman for Illinois. |
| | Lyman | Trumbull | A lawyer, judge, and United States Senator from Illinois. |
| | Dr. Anson | Henry | Abraham's friend. |
| | Salmon P. | Chase | Former Chief Justice and Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S. |
| | Edward | Bates | American politician, lawyer and judge. |
| | Charles | Sumner | American statesman and U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. |
| | John | Brown | American abolitionist leader. |
| 6 | | | Theodore Roosevelt |
| | Isaac | Hunt | Theodore's colleague. |
| | George F. | Edmunds | Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont. |
| | James G. | Blaine | Represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representative. |
| | Charles Evans | Hughes | American judge served as the 11th chief justice of the U.S. |
| | George William | Curtis | American writer and public speaker. |
| | Henry C. | Lodge | American statesman from Massachusetts. |
| | Bill | Merrifield | One of Theodore's acquaintances. |
| | Sylvane | Ferris | One of Theodore's acquaintances. |
| | Will | Dow | Sewall's nephew. |
| | Edith | Carow | Theodore's second wife. |
| | Harrison | Harrison | 23rd president of the United States. |
| | William | Strong | Served as justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. |
| | Andrew | Parker | Theodore's acquaintance. |
| | Lincoln A. | Steffens | American investigative journalist. |
| | Thomas F. | Byrnes | New York City firefighter, police officer and police detective. |
| | Alec | Williams | A police inspector. aka: Clubber. |
| | Grover | Cleveland | 22nd and 24th President of the United States. |
| | Hamlin | Garland | American author. |
| | Stephen | Crane | American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist. |
| | Richard H. | Davis | Journalist, war correspondent, novelist, short story writer. |
| | George | Dewey | United States Navy admiral. |
| | Theodore Jr. | | Theodore Roosevelt's son. |
| | Leonard | Wood | Theodore's friend. |
| | Archie | Butt | Theodore's military adviser. |
| | Russell A. | Alger | Served as U.S. Secretary of War. |
| | Edward | Marshall | A journalist. |
| | Arthur | Crosby | United States ambassador to Colombia. |
| | Thomas C. | Platt | Member of U.S. House of Rep. and U.S. Senator from New York. |
| | Cecil Spring | Rice | Theodore's friend. |
| | Henry C. | Payne | U.S. Postmaster General under Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. |
| | Mark | Hanna | A Republican Party chair. |
| | William H. | Taft | 27th President of the United States. |
| 7 | | | Franklin Roosevelt |
| | Aleksey | Koltsov | A Russian poet. |
| | Ivan | Turgenev | A Russian novelist, poet, and dramatist. |
| | Dr. George | Draper | Franklin's physician |
| | Al | Smith | American statesman who was elected Governor of New York. |
| | James | | Franklin's son. |
| | Lucy | Mercer | Franklin's mistress. |
| | Marlon | Dickerman | Eleanor's friend. |
| | Tom | Pendergast | American political boss who controlled Kansas City. |
| | Herbert | Hoover | 31st President of the United States of America. |
| | Belle | Moskowitz | The most powerful woman in the United States politics. |
| | Raymond | Moley | American presidential advisor. |
| | Rexford | Tugwell | An economist who became part of FDR first "Brain Trust". |
| | Adolf | Berle Jr. | American lawyer, educator, author, and diplomat. |
| | John Nance | Garner | 32nd Vice President of the United States. |
| 8 | | | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| | Morris | Sheppard | United States Senator from Texas. |
| | Walter | Jenkins | Lyndon's aide. |
| | W. Lee | O'Daniel | American Democratic Party politician from Texas. aka: Pappy. |
| | Martin | Dies Jr. | Texas politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| | Gerald | Mann | The attorney general of Texas. |
| | George | Brown | Scottish-Canadian journalist, politician. Father of Confederation. |
| | Herman | Brown | George's brother. Founder of Brown and Root Construction Co. |
| | Ovie Clark | Fisher | An attorney and author served for 32 years as US Rep. for Texas. |
| | Randall | Woods | A historian. |
| | John | Connally | 39th Governor of Texas 61st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. |
| | Joe | Phipps | A campaign worker. |
| | Coke R. | Stevenson | 35th Governor of Texas and Speaker of the Texas House of Rep. |
| | Dorothy | Nichols | Johnson's secretary. |
| | Tom | Miller | American lawyer served as the 33rd Attorney General of Iowa. |
| | Daniel Alan | Webster | American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida. |
| | John C. | Calhoun | American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina. |
| | George | Reedy | The 10th White House Press Secretary under President Johnson. |
| | Richard B. | Russell Jr. | Served as the 66th Governor of Georgia. |
| | Posh | Oltorf | Johnson's long-term friend. |
| | Johann | Strauss Jr. | Austrian composer of light music. |
| | Adlai | Stevenson | American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. |
| | Hubert | Humphrey | 38th Vice President of the United States. |
| | Dwight D. | Eisenhower | U.S. Army commander and 34th president of the United States. |
| | Clinton | Anderson | American politician served as U.S. Rep. from New Mexico. |
| | Joseph C. | O'Mahoney | American politician served as a U.S. senator from Wyoming. |
| | Frank | Church | American politician served as a U.S. Senator from Idaho. |
| | John F. | Kennedy | 35th president of the United States. |
| | Mike | Mansfield | A majority leader. |
| | Arthur | Schlesinger | An influential social historian at Ohio State University. |
| | | | Part III The Leader and the Times: How The Led |
| 9 | | | Transformational Leadership |
| | Jefferson | Davis | President of the Confederate States. |
| | John | Hay | American statesman, diplomat, author and journalist. |
| | George B. | McClellan | American soldier and politician. |
| | Robert E. | Lee | General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. |
| | George T. | Strong | American lawyer, musician and diarist. |
| | Francis | Carpenter | American politician. |
| | Edwin | Stanton | Served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration. |
| | Caleb | Smith | Served as Interior Secretary under the Lincoln administration. |
| | Montgomery | Blair | Served in the Lincoln administration as Postmaster-General. |
| | Gideon | Welles | United States Secretary of the Navy. |
| | David | Hunter | Union general during the American Civil War. |
| | Leonard | Swett | Lincoln's old friend. |
| | George | Harding | Stanton's partner. |
| | Noah | Brooks | American journalist and author. |
| | Ambrose | Burnside | Soldier, inventor and politician from Rhode Island. |
| | William | Shakespeare | English playwright and poet. |
| | John George | Nicolay | American biographer. |
| | Frederick | Douglass | American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist and statesman. |
| | Fred | | Lincoln's son. |
| | Harriet B. | Stowe | American abolitionist and author. |
| | James | Robinson | Kentucky governor. |
| | E. Thurlow | Weed | New York newspaper publisher and Whig and Republican politician. |
| | James | Conkling | Lincoln's old friend. |
| | Ulysses S. | Grant | 18th President of the United States. |
| | James G. | Blunt | An abolitionist who became major general in the Union Army. |
| | Henry J. | Raymond | American journalist, politician, co-founder of The New York Times. |
| | William Lloyd | Garrison | American journalist and abolitionist. |
| 10 | | | Crisis Management |
| | Mark T. | Sullivan | American novelist and journalist. |
| | J. P. | Morgan | Wall Street's most respected financier. |
| | John | Mitchell | U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration. |
| | George | Baer | President of the Reading Railway. |
| | Carroll D. | Wright | American statistician. |
| | Philander C. | Knox | American lawyer, banker, and politician. |
| | Cornelius | Roosevelt | Theodore's grandfather. |
| | William | Craig | A Northern Irish politician. |
| | Orville | Platt | United States Senator from Connecticut. |
| | Seth | Low | 23rd Mayor of Brooklyn. |
| | Winthrop | Crane | Served as the 40th Governor of Massachusetts. |
| | Frank | Sargent | Commisioner of Immigration during Theodore's administration. |
| | Matthew | Quay | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. |
| | Herbert | Putnam | A librarian of the Congress. |
| | William A. | Stone | 22nd Governor of Pennsylvania. |
| | John | Schofield | U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general. |
| | E. E. | Clark | Head of the Order of Railway Conductors. |
| | William R. | Thayer | United States author and editor. |
| 11 | | | Turnaround Leadership |
| | Robert | Sherwood | White House aide. |
| | Agnes | Meyer | A journalist. |
| | Harold | Ickes | Served as United States Secretary of the Interior. |
| | Richard | Whitney | American financier, president of the New York Stock Exchange. |
| | Joseph | Hill | Alabama senator. |
| | Henry David | Thoreau | American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist. |
| | Benjamin N. | Cardozo | New York State Supreme Court justice. |
| | James | Farley | Postmaster General under President Franklin Roosevelt. |
| | John | Gunther | A reporter. |
| | Marion | Dickerman | Eleanor's friend. |
| | Hiram | Johnson | Served as the 23rd governor of California. |
| | Thomas | Walsh | An author. |
| | Nomer | Cummings | A Connecticut lawyer. |
| | William | Woodin | A Republican businessman. |
| | Henry A. | Wallace | Served as the 33rd Vice President of the United States. |
| | Henry B. | Steagall | Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. |
| | Bertrand | Snell | Republican minority leader. |
| | Steve | Early | National union rep. for the Communications Workers of America. |
| | Robert | Fechner | American labor leader. |
| | George | Marshall | U. S. Army to become Chief of Staff under president FDR. |
| | Carter | Glass | Served as Secretary of the Treasury. |
| 12 | | | Visionary Leadership |
| | Lee Harvey | Oswald | American former marine who assassinated John F. Kennedy. |
| | Jack | Ruby | American nightclub operator killed Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| | Harry S. | Truman | 33rd president of the United States. |
| | Jack | Valenti | One of Lyndon's close aides. |
| | Cliff | Carter | One of Lyndon's close aides. |
| | Bill | Moyers | One of Lyndon's close aides. |
| | Walter | Lipmann | American writer, reporter and political commentator. |
| | Theodore | Sorenson | Kennedy's aide. |
| | Harry | Byrd | American newspaper publisher, politician. |
| | George | Smathers | American politician, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator. |
| | Robert | McNamara | American businessman and Secretary of Defense. |
| | Larry | O'Brien | White House aide. |
| | Elizabeth | Springer | The chief committee clerk. |
| | Wilbur | Mills | Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. |
| | Everett | Dirksen | Represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Rep. and U.S. Senate. |
| | Roy | Wilkins | African-American rights activist. |
| | Robert F. | Kennedy | Attorney general and adviser during U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy. |
| | Victor | Hugo | French poet, novelist, and dramatist. |
| | Clair | Engle | Served as a United States Senator from California. |
| | John | Williams | One of America's most accomplished and successful composers. |
| | Gene | Williams | American musician and bandleader. |
| | Barry M. | Goldwater | American politician, statesman and United States Air Force officer. |
| | Henry | Ford | American industrialist and business magnate. |
| | James G. | Clark | The sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama. |
| | Nicholas | Katzenbach | Served as U.S. Attorney General during the LBJ administration. |
| | Martin Luther | King | American Baptist minister and activist. |
| | Whitney | Young | American civil rights leader. |
| | Howard | Smith | Chairman of the Rules Committee. |
| | A. Philip | Randolph | Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician. |
| | Joe | Rauh | Democratic action founder. |
| | David | McDonald | Head of the United Steelworkers of America. |
| | Katharine | Graham | American publisher, editor and author. |
| | Katie | Dietrich | Lyndon's former teacher. |
| | Wilbur | Cohen | Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare. |
| | McGeorge | Bundo | Lyndon's national security adviser. |
| | Ho Chi | Minh | Vietnamese communist leader and Chairman of the Workers' Party. |
| | J. William | Fullbright | Represented Arkansas in the United States Senate. |
| Epi | | | Of Death and remembrance |
| | Lynda | | Johnson's daughter. |
| | Clarence M. | Mitchell | American civil rights activist and the chief lobbyist for the NAACP. |
| | Horace Julian | Bond | American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement. |
| | Barbara C. | Jordan | American lawyer, leader in the Civil Rights Movement. |
| | Vernon | Jordan | African-American lawyer, civil rights activist. |
| | Earl | Warren | Former Chief Justice. |
| | Harry | Middleton | A library director. |
| | Chauncey | Depew | Remembered for his two terms as U. S. Senator from New York. |
| | Quentin | Roosevelt | Youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| | Anna 2 | | Franklin's daughter. |
| | Ross T. | McIntire | American physician and naval officer. |
| | Howard G. | Bruenn | One of Franklin D. Roosevelt's physician during his presidency. |
| | Laura | Delano | Franklin's cousin. |
| | Bernard | Baruch | American financier and statesman. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany. |
| | Margaret | Suckley | Franklin's Roosevelt. |
| | Thomas E. | Dewey | American politian served as the 47th governor of New York. |
| | Joseph | Stalin | General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| | William Lyon | Mackenzie King | 10th Prime Minister of Canada. |
| | Mark | Reilly | A Secret Service Agent. |
| | Robert | | Lincoln's eldest son. |
| | Schuyler | Colfax | 17th Vice President of the United States. |
| | Richard J. | Oglesby | American soldier and Republican politician from Illinois. |
| | George | Ashmun | Member of the U.S. House of Rep. from Massachusetts. |
| | John Wilkes | Booth | American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. |
| | Julius | Caesar | Roman general, statesman and final Dictator. |
