The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307387455ISBN-10:307387453UPC:9780307387455Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Military, Historical, PoliticalSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCR7CG098A
Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award
The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and fully reveals a man driven by dreams of glory only to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses. Drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and private homes in France and the United States, Auricchio, gives us history on a grand scale revealing the man and his complex life, while challenging and exploring the complicated myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuriesLanguages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307387455ISBN-10:307387453UPC:9780307387455Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Military, Historical, PoliticalSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCR7CG098A
Laura Auricchio is a specialist in eighteenth-century French history and art who received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her PhD from Columbia University. Auricchio has been the recipient of major fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and Columbia University. She is currently the Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School. She lives in New York with her husband.
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