RaveThe AtlanticAnderson succeeds precisely because he eschews structural, quasi-philosophical queries for an energetic account that concerns itself with, as he puts it, \'a few core questions\' ... Anderson has also consulted the best scholarship on the revolution ... Anderson thus offers a readable page-turner that’s also attuned to those core questions. The book answers the why and the how of the revolution with a clear conclusion that might frustrate the grand theorists: It was a contingent event, not some historical inevitability but, in many ways, an accident.
