Already his impatience had resulted in a failed coup by his student revolutionaries that had cost thirty lives.
The student revolutionaries of 1968 simply banished from their version of history all stories about Germans that did not fit in with the picture of the "generation of perpetrators."
Mr. Liptak, a tall, elegant man of 70, was a leader among the student revolutionaries and went on to become an automation expert.
The story also follows the lives of an array of other unfortunates in early 19th-century France, including prostitutes, student revolutionaries and factory workers.
Cops, drug dealers and student revolutionaries from the 1960's collide in Elmore Leonard's "spectacular" novel.
Silvio, whose parents are onetime student revolutionaries who have clearly made peace with bourgeois life, is desperate for love and sexual experience.
"Dare to Die" student corps were founded, for student revolutionaries wanting to fight against Qing dynasty rule.
And in England student revolutionaries were gathering in television studios to frighten nervous presenters like Frank Mackenzie.
There's a whole group of student revolutionaries marching downstage and a huge flag is suddenly being waved over their heads that fills the whole stage with red color.
In 1979, fifty Americans were taken hostage by student revolutionaries in Iran, and held for 444 days.