The Revolution is over
R.W. Johnson, 16 February 1989
The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and its Legacy 1789-1989
edited by Geoffrey Best.
Fontana, 241 pp., £4.95, November 1988,0 00 686056 7 Show More
edited by Geoffrey Best.
Fontana, 241 pp., £4.95, November 1988,
“... it with six thousand urns containing urine. Floating irresistibly back come recollections of John Nance Garner, Vice-President of the United States, describing his own job as ‘about as much use as a pitcher of warm piss’. John Nance Garner, where are you now that we need you? The bizarrerie that pleases me most is ... ”