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

They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but\nhistory remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of\nequals.On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out\nin the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul\nRevere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a\ngallop.So began what have been called the \“sister revolutions\” of\nFrance and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book\ntells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply\nintertwined they actually were. Their leaders, George Washington\nand the Marquis de Lafayette, were often seen as father and son,\nbut their relationship, while close, was every bit as complex as\nthe long, fraught history of the French-American alliance. Vain,\ntough, and ambitious, they strove to shape their characters and\nrecords into the form they wanted history to remember. James R.\nGaines provides fascinating insights into these personal\ntransformations and is equally\n\n