Reviews for A social history of the French Revolution

The average rating for A social history of the French Revolution based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-03-23 00:00:00 SCOTT MASSON During high school very few friends had access to automobiles. Walter Wallace, a year ahead of me, was an exception. One of two sons of a single mother, his was one of the poorer families in Park Ridge, but the exigencies of work required them to maintain a car. Walter, being the elder son, was the designated driver. Indeed, I never saw his mother run the thing--perhaps she'd never learned. In any case, he used it to drive her and himself back and forth from work, from shopping and errands. In what time remained the machine was his and he was generous with his friends. Many of my most important experiences in adolescence were in part owing to Walter's Volvo. Walter was, even as an adolescent, a leftist intellectual, inclined to the study of history. His idea of a good time included such things as going to bookstores, to libraries, to university campuses and academic lectures. I, sharing similar interests, was more than happy to accompany him, serving as navigator and cigarette lighter on the longer trips. This particular book, my first serious study of the French revolution outside the classroom, was obtained on one such adventure to the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-13 00:00:00 Kathi Shepard Great if you're looking for information, which I was. Not so great if you're looking for an interesting read.