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Title: A Useless Muddle
Review: I recently wrote a term paper on Robespierre using a dozen sources, some pro-Robespierre like Gallo and Rude, some balanced pro and con like Norman Hamspon and Thompson and some anti-Robespierre like Belloc. Then there are the off the wall zealots, who throw history to the wind and launch diatribes that ignore and totally distort history. This book by Otto Scott falls into this category. I found it usful only to point out in my paper how some people crudely try merely to manipulate facts and events to promote some half baked notions. It is really a total muddle.
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