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Rent The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: Dec 2006
Genre: History - General
Retail Price: $22.00
Pages: 456
Synopsis
An incisive new interpretation of the French Revolution and its violent upheaval looks at troubling parallels between the Terror and the rise of today's political and religious fundamentalism, arguing that the violence of the French Revolution resulted from dogmatic and fundamental thinking that led to a pointless bloodletting. Reprint.