The Jacobins were the most famous of the political clubs that fomented the French Revolution. Initially moderate, they are remembered mainly for instituting the Reign of Terror. Crane Brinton's The Jacobins was written in the 1930s, itself a decade of the violent centralization of unchecked political power.

I. INTRODUCTION II. ORGANIZATION III. MEMBERSHIP IV TACTICS V. PLATFORM VI. RITUAL VII. FAITH VIII. CONCLUSION