Alan S. Kahan is an associate professor in the history department at Florida International University and the author of Aristocratic Liberalism and Liberalism in Nineteeth-Century Europe.
Franois Furet(1927-'97) was professor at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales in Paris and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His many works includeInterpreting the French Revolution,The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, andIn the Workshop of History,the latter twopublished by the University of Chicago Press.