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For liberty and glory : Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions

"Gaines has a deft understanding of the Washington-Lafayette relationship ... [and] a knack for wielding substantial research with aplomb."—San Francisco Chronicle
Print Book, English, 2007
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2007
viii, 533 p. : il. ; 25 cm
9780393333510, 9780393061383, 0393333515, 0393061388
928792465
Recoge: The quest for glory
Lexington and Versailles
Endgames of the old regime
La Victoire
To Brandywine
Another kind of crucible
Enter France
The beauty of a draw
Showing their colors
The ally and the traitor
Into Virginia
Yorktown
The dark side of liberty
Entr'acte
Movements west and left
Forms of bankruptcy
Two conventions
First blood
Experiments in democracy
Acts of defiance
The spring of 1789
Come the revolution
Front lines
Works of the guillotine
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Farewells
Epilogue
Índice: p. [505]-533