`All in all, the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, and on politics more generally, ... a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history, ...' - Patrick Joyce Times Higher Education Supplement`... the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, ... Hunt's book is a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history , and a significant signpost to a new sort of political history.' - Times Higher Education`This is European cultural history at its best.' - France in Print

• Preface 1. The Family Model of Politics 2. The Rise and Fall of the Good Father 3. The Band of Brothers 4. The Bad Mother 5. Sade's Family Politics 6. Rehabilitating the Family Epilogue

`All in all, the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, and on politics more generally, ... a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history, ...' - Patrick Joyce Times Higher Education Supplement`... the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, ... Hunt's book is a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history , and a significant signpost to a new sort of political history.' - Times Higher Education`This is European cultural history at its best.' - France in Print

• Preface 1. The Family Model of Politics 2. The Rise and Fall of the Good Father 3. The Band of Brothers 4. The Bad Mother 5. Sade's Family Politics 6. Rehabilitating the Family Epilogue

`All in all, the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, and on politics more generally, ... a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history, ...' - Patrick Joyce Times Higher Education Supplement`... the book offers exciting and novel perspectives on the Revolution, ... Hunt's book is a vindication of the power and importance of cultural history , and a significant signpost to a new sort of political history.' - Times Higher Education`This is European cultural history at its best.' - France in Print

• Preface 1. The Family Model of Politics 2. The Rise and Fall of the Good Father 3. The Band of Brothers 4. The Bad Mother 5. Sade's Family Politics 6. Rehabilitating the Family Epilogue