LAFAYETTE: America's French Knight
Harlow Unger
John Wiley & Sons (2002)

One of France's wealthiest aristocrats, Lafayette was an ardent champion of American liberty who led three revolutions on two continents and changed the course of the world history by assuring the financial and military aid that won America's war of independence. Harlow Giles Unger's gripping new biography follows Lafayette through seventy years of breathtaking history, from the gilded mansions of Paris and the Palace at Versailles to Brandywine and Yorktown. To storming of the Bastille and the savagery of the French Revolution. Here too is the little known account of how George Washington, Lafayette's affectionate "adoptive father," hid Lafayette's son at Mount Vernon to save him from French butchery-and how Lafayette's courageous wife Adrienne shared the agonies of his dungeon prison rather than leave the man she loved.

Harlow Giles Unger (New York, NY and Paris France) is the author of Noah Webster and John Handcock. A veteran journalist, he was a news editor at The New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service in Paris and a foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times (London).

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