Voltaire: A Life.

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  • Author(s): Blaisdell, Bob
  • Source:
    Christian Science Monitor. 12/17/2010, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.
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    • Abstract:
      When Voltaire wrote histories and biographies of famous men – Charles XII, Peter the Great – he smiled all the way through, never showing the strain of research. He read everything he could and corresponded with every eyewitness possible, but he composed as if he were lecturing off the top of his witty head. Ian Davidson, on the other hand, has read – he tells and practically shows us in his new biography Voltaire: A Life – all 15,284 extant letters Voltaire wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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