We Came This Way — 1945

A biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet as champion of liberty.

John Bright, the Quaker orator and radical who argued Britain toward reform and criticised its foreign policy from within, through the Gladstone years.

The Second French Republic, or how the common man became a citizen: the widening of the franchise as a chapter in the long argument over who counts as a citizen.

Giuseppe Mazzini -- called the soul of Italy -- the philosopher and agitator whose argument helped bring the modern Italian state into being. Announced as the nineteenth in the series, though it is more likely the eighteenth.

Carl Schurz, the German-born revolutionary who fled the failed risings of 1848, became a Union general, and went on to be the first German-born member of the United States Senate.

Victor Hugo, and how one writer's conscience helped push France toward freedom.

Aleksandr Herzen, the exile called the father of Russian socialism, and his long fight against tyranny at home from abroad.

Lajos Kossuth -- lawyer, journalist and politician -- who led Hungary's struggle for independence and served as its Governor-President in 1849.

Leon Gambetta, the French statesman who carried his country through the Franco-Prussian War and helped a republic be born out of the defeat.