Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations. He examines how massive counterrevolutionary movements profoundly affected the course of the Revolution, leading to the failure of constitutional government and, ultimately, to an elitist dictatorship in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte that paved the way for many of the struggles of the nineteenth century.
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Donald Sutherland is a prolific and versatile Canadian-born actor of film and television. Some of his best-known movie roles included offbeat warriors in popular war movies such as The Dirty Dozen, MASH, and Kelly’s Heroes, as well as characters in other popular films such as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, JFK, Ordinary People, and more recently The Hunger Games as President Snow. For his audiobook narrations, he has earned two AudioFile Earphones Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best male solo narration. His voice work also includes the movies Jock the Hero Dog and Lord of War. His other awards include a Primetime Emmy, two Golden Globe awards, and several international film festival awards. In 2011, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.