"Winik is a master of character study and a born storyteller.  The cast of characters is a veritable gallery of greats. Cecil B. De Mille could not have asked for more. [Winik can] recover a palpable sense of what it was like, for example, to watch Marie Antoinette go to the guillotine or George Washington dominate a room by his silence. If you want to understand, intellectually and emotionally, what it was like to experience this historic upheaval, this is the book for you.”

– Joe Ellis, The New York Times Book Review    read more »