Richard Popkin

Richard Popkin’s revised and expanded History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Pierre Bayle is due from Oxford this year. His piece was written with the assistance of Stephanie Chasin.

Letter

Popkin Fils

2 December 1982

SIR: In Vol. 5, No 1 you published a letter by Professor Patrice Higonnet of Harvard, in which he was quoted as saying: ‘Indeed, Richard Popkin has shown in his extremely valuable The Right-Wing Press in France 1792-1800 …’ I agree that the book is extremely valuable, but I regret that I am not the author of it. However, I am happy to report that my son, Jeremy D. Popkin, Professor of History...

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