Schama tells a story, and he tells it well.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Citizens, like the great 19th-century narratives it emulates, makes entertainment and erudition work hand in hand.As no other recent historian of the revolution, Schama brings to life the excitement - and harrowing terror - of an epochal human event.' - Newsweek 'A fresh and elegant narrative.A brilliantly readable and beautifully illustrated account.' - Washington Post Book World 'We are in the hands of a master storyteller.Vivid, dramatic, thought-provoking.Schama's portrait of the revolution is often surprising.His splendid recounting convinces us that much of what we thought we knew is wrong. His chronicle is, after all, a stunningly virtuoso performance.' - Lawrence Stone, The New Republic 'One of The Best Books Of The Decade.' - Time 'Monumental.a delight to read.Lively descriptions of major events, colorful cameos of leading characters (and obscure ones too), bring them to life here as no other general work has done.Above all, Mr.

The virtues of this book in the coruscating brilliance of dazzling display of erudition and intelligence. He also chronicle with a dramatic burst of poetic imagination. BOMC and QPB alternates.' is no ordinary book.Schama does not merely write brilliantly about people, about events, about the abuse of rhetoric, and about festivals and executions. Schama ( Citizens ) blends fact, speculation and fictitious dialogue in a chronicle as gripping as a good detective novel. Although a genial, expansive Harvard chemistry professor was hanged for the crime, the conflicting testimony presented here casts doubt on the verdict. The second half deals with the case of Parkman's mercurial Uncle George-exacting landlord, physician, authority on insane asylums-whose dismembered body parts were found at Harvard Medical College one week after he disappeared on Thanksgiving Day, 1849. We glimpse his death thrice: through the eyes of a fear-racked soldier who took part in the battle through American painter, Benjamin West, whose grandiloquent Death of General Wolfe won him an appointment as court history painter to King George II, and through Boston Brahmin historian Francis Parkman, who helped make Wolfe a patriotic martyr. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social. In the book's first half, heroic British general James Wolfe, killed in the battle for Quebec in 1759, emerges as a neurotic monomaniac thirsty for glory. In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technologya strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. In a virtuoso performance, Harvard historian Schama underscores the yawning abyss between experiential knowledge of an event and historical interpretations of it.

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