A Chronicle of the French RevolutionBy Simon SchamaNarrated by Frederick Davidson
Length36h 48m
About this audiobook
From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift among the elite over the speed of progress toward modernity and science, social and economic change. Schama’s approach, weaving in and out of private and public lives in the fashion of a novel, brings us closer than we have ever been to the harrowing and seductive French Revolution.
Simon Schama is the author of several award-winning books, including Rough Crossings, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy. He is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York.View all by Simon Schama
