The American Spectator : Present at the Creation

Present at the Creation

By Joseph A. Harriss on 5.21.08 @ 12:06AM

The painful birth of our modern world.

This review appears in the May 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.

Joseph A. Harriss is The American Spectator's Paris correspondent. His latest book is About France.

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