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Book Notes - Marc Estrin ("The Good Doctor Guillotin")

Oct 8, 2009, 10:56am largehearted boy
Book Notes - Marc Estrin ("The Good Doctor Guillotin") In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Marc Estrin's The Good Doctor Guillotin examines the lives and times of the five men who invented the guillotine, and finely blends history, fiction, and political commentary. Foreword wrote of the book: "The story of these five men is accompanied by facts about French society during the Age of Enlightenment, including a discussion of the rampant taphophie--or fear of graves and being [...]
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