|This version of the classic literary hero was notorious for rewriting the hero's motives from returning overtaxed income to the people who actually earned their income into blatant Jacobin propaganda (as the French Revolution was occurring at the time Ritson wrote the book), including promoting wealth redistribution with the claim that Robin Hood "stole from the rich to give to the poor." | |This version of the classic literary hero was notorious for rewriting the hero's motives from returning overtaxed income to the people who actually earned their income into blatant Jacobin propaganda (as the French Revolution was occurring at the time Ritson wrote the book), including promoting wealth redistribution with the claim that Robin Hood "stole from the rich to give to the poor." |