Simon Schama's Controversial but Well-Written Chronicle of the French Revolution.
Historian and writer Simon Schama. His revisionist history of the French Revolution - Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - has been one of the most talked-about and debated volumes of history in the last several years. Critics have lauded Schama for bringing vividly to life the characters that inspired the five-year popular uprising that changed the modern political order. One portion of the book's controversy is Schama's contention that the revolution was oftentimes sustained by little more than "rhetorical adrenaline," that it wasn't the clear and careful articulation of popular discontent it has been since pictured as.
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