This book, in compelling narrative, makes is clear that the French Revolution actually began not with the clamor of the common people but with the blue-blooded aristocracy and the high clergy of the ancien régime who had been enamored with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the views of the enlightenment (i.e., convincingly demonstrated in […]
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This would have been one among the books Maximilien Robespierre would have chosen as an acceptable biography of himself, according him his rightful place in history. It is disturbing that so many readers of this book expressing their views in Amazon.com praise this idealized biography, once again reinterpreting the career of the authoritarian despot, who
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This biography of Robespierre, The Incorruptible, reads like a spellbinding novel, only that this book recounts more than the life of Robespierre. It graphically describes the horrors of the French Revolution and gives us vivid descriptions of all of the main participants in that orgy of blood, horror and death. It begins with the notorious
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When the government fears the people there is liberty.When the people fear the government there is tyranny.Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Federal Law Enforcement In West Virginia, we learn that the house of a physician is entered by federal agents who do not identify themselves or explain their actions. The physician’s wife and children are threatened and
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Dr. Miguel Faria is very proud of his adopted the United States of America. He’s equally as proud to have received the Americanism medal and certificate from the Daughters of the American Revolution last month. Faria, a native of Cuba, moved to Macon in 1983 after completing his training in neurosurgery at Emory University Hospital
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In matters of style, swim with the current;in matters of principle, stand firm like a rock.Thomas Jefferson The Corporate Practice of Medicine One hears repeatedly that managed care penetration in health care delivery continues unabated; that it continues to interpose itself in the medical decision-making process erstwhile reserved to the patient and his physician; and
