For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their RevolutionsW. W. Norton & Company, 2007 - 533 էջ 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, 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. James R. Gaines provides fascinating insights into these personal transformations and is equally brilliant at showing the extraordinary effect of the two "freedom fighters" on subsequent history. |
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Բովանդակություն
Introductions | 5 |
Lexington and Versailles | 19 |
Endgames of the Old Regime | 32 |
La Victoire | 51 |
To Brandywine | 59 |
Another Kind of Crucible | 77 |
Enter France | 93 |
The Beauty of a Draw | 103 |
First Blood | 244 |
Experiments in Democracy | 258 |
Acts of Defiance | 273 |
The Spring of 1789 | 285 |
Come the Revolution | 303 |
Front Lines | 329 |
Works of the Guillotine | 363 |
Between Scylla and Charybdis | 379 |
Showing Their Colors | 118 |
The Ally and the Traitor | 131 |
Into Virginia | 145 |
Yorktown | 156 |
Entracte | 173 |
Movements West and Left | 192 |
Forms of Bankruptcy | 215 |
Two Conventions | 233 |
Farewells | 393 |
Epilogue | 421 |
Notes | 451 |
487 | |
Acknowledgments | 499 |
Illustration Credits | 503 |
505 | |
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