Timothy Tackett is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution; Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France; and Becoming a Revolutionary.
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What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett answers this question through a masterful recreation of the world of Adrien Colson, a minor lawyer w... SEE MORE