PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewClark presents the unrest at street level through eyewitness accounts, and he weaves this material into an impressive transcontinental tableau ... Brims with poetry, novels, memoirs and paintings, and Clark is drawn to color, sound and dress ... Clark acknowledges the spectral presence of the French Revolution for the actors involved in this drama, but, in making comparisons, he is more interested in musing on the present.
