looking at the
revolution it was not: Contrasting the American and the French
revolutions, he sheds light on both. Political scientist and biogra-
pher Maurice Cranston examines the long-term effects of the
Revolution. Surveying its global legacies, Cranston uncovers a sig-
nificant irony: He finds a revolution whose consequences in its
own country were radically different from those it would pro-
duce, so explosively, throughout the rest of the world.
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