Unusual Suspects

Robespierre''s Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger''s Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and Fre...