For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions

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W. W. Norton & Company, 17. sep. 2008 - 552 strani
On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a gallop. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions, and shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were. Their leaders, George Washington and the marquis de Lafayette, had a relationship every bit as complex as the long, fraught history of the French-American alliance. Vain, tough, ambitious, they strove to shape their characters and records into the form they wanted history to remember. Book jacket.
 

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Introductions
19
Endgames of the Old Regime
51
Another Kind of Crucible
103
Yorktown
156
Entracte
215
Two Conventions
233
First Blood
244
Experiments in Democracy
258
Come the Revolution
303
Front Lines
329
Works of the Guillotine
363
Between Scylla and Charybdis
379
Notes
451
B ibliograpJy
487
Acknowledgments
499
Index
505

Acts of Defiance
273

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James R. Gaines has been the editor of several magazines, including Time and People, and is also the author of Evening in the Palace of Reason. He lives with his family in Paris.

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