Albert Goodwin

Very informative treatment of the economic, political and social situations before and during the '1789' French Revolution. Do not read this book if you want blood curdling descriptions of the slaughters, because there are none. Written in 1956 (for y0u Common Core math kiddies, that's 61 years ago), it has numerous obsolete words and makes assumptions of the 1956 reader's knowledge. In other words, even at 182 pages, it is very slow reading (why I gave it only 3 stars) but contains valuable information. I'm glad to have read it and, now, look forward to reading a book with blood curdling descriptions of the slaughters...… (mehr)