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Title: Totally without merit!
Review: This book shows an amazing lack of knowledge of the people and events of the French revolution. It is inaccurate, prejudiced and a very distorted book. Scott wants to portray the French Revolution as the most evil event in history, so he twists the facts and randomly invents new ones. His bibliography alone shows his total lack of famliarity with the major historical books on the period. If you want a true picture of Robespierre, there are numeros first rate studies by legitimate scholars, such as J.M. Thompson, Norman Hanson, and the brilliant REVOLUTIONARY CAREER OF MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE by David Jordan (one of American's leading experts on the period), Otto Scott, on the other hand, provides an amateurish effort best forgotten.
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