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Jeremy D. Popkin

Biography

Jeremy D. Popkin

Jeremy D. Popkin holds the William T. Bryan chair of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of many books, including YOU ARE ALL FREE and A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Jeremy D. Popkin

Books by Jeremy D. Popkin

by Jeremy D. Popkin - History, Nonfiction

The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society --- even if, after more than 200 years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A NEW WORLD BEGINS, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre and Danton in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror.