Laura Mason is a senior lecturer in history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787–1799. She lives in Baltimore.
“Segments of The Last Revolutionaries are cinematic (the story
would make for a gripping screenplay). And Mason writes about
complex concepts, such as the notion of the legitimate
insurrection, with clarity, impressing on the reader the urgency of
contemporary political debates.”—Rhys Jones, Financial Times
“Insightful and damning. . . . Mason does not shy from present-day
implications. It is a testament to the success of The Last
Revolutionaries that it invites reflection on such problems while
narrating a gripping and historically sensitive account of the
past.”—Andrew Jainchill, Journal of Modern History
“A superbly-realised vision of Gracchus Babeuf, a man who emerged
from poverty with a fiery and humane idealism, and whose bitter
defeat opened the road from revolutionary justice to cynical
tyranny.”—David Andress, University of Portsmouth
“Mason brilliantly explores the public debate engendered by the
trial of Babeuf and so doing provides a new interpretation of the
demise of the French Revolution.”—Timothy Tackett, author of
Becoming a Revolutionary
“A new and striking account of the life, ideas, following and fate
of a neglected French revolutionary whose attempts to balance
social justice, individual freedom and democracy speak powerfully
to current concerns.”—Colin Jones, author of The Great Nation
“Very much a book for our times. Mason’s retelling of the trial of
Gracchus Babeuf and the French Revolution shows how democracies
end. Historians of revolutions and all those concerned with the arc
of social justice movements have much to learn from this remarkable
story.”—Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania
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