For liberty and glory : Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions / James R. Gaines.
2007
E312.25 .G35 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
For liberty and glory : Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions / James R. Gaines.
Author
Gaines, James R.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393061383
0393061388
0393061388
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Language
English
Description
viii, 533 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E312.25 .G35 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.4/1092
B
B
Summary
They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single 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, were often seen as father and son, but their relationship, while close, was 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.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.