Swinehart on Merriman’s book The Dynamite Club

David PesciMay 18, 20091min

In The Chicago Tribune, Kirk Davis Swinehart, assistant professor of history, reviews John Merriman’s new book The Dynamite Club, which examines an 1894 anarchist bombing in Paris. Swinehart calls the book “that rare thing: virtuosic storytelling that doubles as superb history.”