Revolution

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Pharaohs Fall
3. Chapter Two - Athens Breaks Itself
4. Chapter Three - Rome Burns, Rome Votes
5. Chapter Four - The Peasants Are Coming
6. Chapter Five - The American Experiment
7. Chapter Six - France Eats the Rich
8. Chapter Seven - Haiti Breaks the Chain
9. Chapter Eight - The Latin American Lightning Storm
10. Chapter Nine - Europe’s Failed Revolutions
11. Chapter Ten - Russia’s Bolshevik Explosion
12. Chapter Eleven - China’s Long March to Red
13. Chapter Twelve - Castro, Che, and the Caribbean Spark
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Iranian Detonation
15. Chapter Fourteen - Tear Down This Wall
16. Chapter Fifteen - The Arab Spring
17. Chapter Sixteen - Echoes and Embers

Excerpt

PROLOGUE HISTORY DOESN’T MOVE on its own. It gets shoved. By hunger. By anger. By some poor bastard who’s had enough and finally throws the first brick. You don’t get revolutions because things are bad. You get them when people stop believing they have to take it anymore. When the king becomes a man again. When the chains look breakable. When the palace feels burnable. Sometimes it’s a philosopher with a pamphlet. Sometimes it’s a farmer with a pitchfork. Sometimes it’s a Twitter account with 87 followers. But it always starts the same way: Someone lights a match. And if the air’s dry enough — if the system’s cracked, if the fear’s gone, if the lies can’t hold — then that spark doesn’t...