For most of humanity, and for most of history, democracy and liberalism were utterly alien concepts. That they should have been kept alive, if only as a seed, to germinate centuries later in the more fertile soil of America, is thanks to the efforts of some remarkable men and women. Portraits in Democracy is a tribute to them; more specifically, to the least known of the great democrats of history. Men like Pericles, Rousseau, Jefferson and Lincoln have had entire libraries of books written about them. Portraits looks at the less well-known heroes and heroines of history to recall them to memory and preserve their contribution to the great and unending enterprise which is the liberation of mankind from oppression.

Portraits in Democracy:

• Introduction: What is Democracy?
• Chapter One: What the Greeks Knew
• Chapter Two: Lycurgus, the First Spartan
• Chapter Three: Solon, the Lawgiver: c. 638 – 558 BC
• Chapter Four: Cleisthenes, Father of Democracy: c. 570 – 507 BC
• Chapter Five: Pericles and Imperial Athens: c. 495 – 429 BC
• Chapter Six: Thrasybulus, son of Lycus: c. 440 – 388 BC
• Chapter Seven: Epaminondas the Liberator: c. 418 – 362 BC
• Chapter Eight: The Spartan Women
• Chapter Nine: The Roman Republic
• Chapter Ten: Lucius Junius Brutus
• Chapter Eleven: Appius Claudius
• Chapter Twelve: Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus: 519 – 430 BC
• Chapter Thirteen: Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus
• Epilogue: What the Greeks Knew And We Still Don’t