Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution - Paperback
by Ruth Scurr
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805082616ISBN-10:805082611UPC:9780805082616Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Political, EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCJ3WWA99D
"Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read." --Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first...Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805082616ISBN-10:805082611UPC:9780805082616Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Political, EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCJ3WWA99D
Born in 1971, Ruth Scurr studied at Oxford and Cambridge, where she currently teaches politics and history. A prominent literary critic, she has written for The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Fatal Purity is her first book.
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