Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France Since the Eighteenth Century

"It’s a new history of French political thought. And it brings the story to the present. I like it because it talks about how the wish for a republican form of government is voiced in French political thought. It describes how this wish endures through all the vicissitudes of the revolutionary age, and survives as a claim of political legitimacy, vindicated eventually with the advent of the Third Republic. He discusses all the major political thinkers who created continental European liberalism in the 19th century. It is very useful for understanding the intellectual and ideological currents in the age of revolutions and the early part of the book focuses on that."