Fatal purity

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A work of genuine scholarship and political literature, Fatal Purity is an electrifying biography of an epoch's vaulting ambitions and wounded pride, radical vision and terrifying uncertainty, bracing heroism and decimating energies.”4/4(53).

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr pp, Chatto & Windus, £ As Maximilien Robespierre was taken through the streets of Paris to the guillotine on the morning of Author: Rebecca Abrams.

Fatal Purity, indeed. Fatal for its victims, which in Regarding the bloody aftermath of Robespierre's most terrifying law that basically granted the Revolutionary Tribunal license to arrest and condemn anyone as a subversive opponent who uttered even the slightest criticism of the Revolution and those running it, Scurr writes, "[Robespierre /5(81).

Fatal Purity ends with Robespierre’s death on the same guillotine where he had sent so many others. Although Ms. Scurr presented an account of his family history and early life she ends her work rather abruptly at this point/5(53). Written with epic sweep, full of nuance and insight, Fatal Purity is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.5/5(3).

A work of genuine scholarship and political literature, Fatal Purity is an electrifying biography of an epoch's vaulting ambitions and wounded pride, radical vision and terrifying uncertainty, bracing heroism and decimating energies/5(6).

Buy Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution New by Scurr, Ruth (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low /5(65). A work of genuine scholarship and political literature, Fatal Purity is an electrifying biography of an epoch's vaulting ambitions and wounded pride, radical vision and terrifying uncertainty, bracing heroism and decimating energies.”Cited by:   "Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point.

This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read."—Hilary Mantel, London Review of BooksSince his execution by guillotine in JulyMaximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians.

Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary 5/5(3). Buy a cheap copy of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French book by Ruth Scurr. A riveting biography of the French Revolution's most enigmatic figure that restores him to his pivotal historic place Since his execution by guillotine in July Free shipping over $/5(5).

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In her lively and well-written book, "Fatal Purity," Ruth Scurr, a historian and literary critic, confesses her sympathy for Robespierre, admitting that she has given him "the benefit of any. Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution (Book): Scurr, Ruth: A riveting biography of the French Revolution's most enigmatic figure that restores him to his pivotal historic place Since his execution by guillotine in JulyMaximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians, at once the most notorious leader of the French Revolution and the least.

Download PDF Fatal Purity book full free. Fatal Purity available for download and read online in other formats. Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution, by Ruth Scurr (read 10 Jan ). Robespierre was born May 6,in Arras, France and had his head cut off on Jand is a figure of high interest.

I read a biography of him on Aug 7, and a biography of him on 8 Mar /5(6). This naturally led to Ruth Scurr's equally marvelous book on Robespierre, FATAL PURITY (). Robespierre was a pale Ichabod Crane with the asceticism of a monk; Danton, hideously ugly, had the animal needs of what Americans might call a red-blooded fullback/5(49).

Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution (Book): Scurr, Ruth: Baker & TaylorA biography of a key figure of the French Revolution captures the paradoxical life of Maximilien Robespierre, from his beginnings as a provincial lawyer, to his rise to power as a revolutionary leader, to his eventual end on the guillotine that had taken the.

Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, ; Metropolitan Books, ) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize () and was listed among the Best Books of the Decade in The Times in.

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