New book

I spent a long long time at SFO on Thursday, and after reading all of this months Harper's Magazine (no I didn't even try the puzzle), I picked up the Great Upheaval, a history of the revolutions and counterrevolutions at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on Catherine the Great's Russia, Washington's America, and France from Louis XVI to Napoleon. Pretty good. I wish I had a paperback copy, Big hardcovers are hard to fit into my lifestyle.