Unger, Harlow Giles

Lafayette

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ISBN 13:
9780471468851
author:
Unger, Harlow Giles
format:
Paperback
publisher:
John Wiley & Sons
language:
English
Publication Year:
2003
Pages:
480
Dimensions:
163mm X 235mm
Genre:
Biography & Autobiography
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£23.33

Description

Lafayette: A Life of Two Revolutions. Harlow Unger's biography is a remarkable and dramatic account of Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette's life, which was as fully lived as it is possible to imagine. The author provides a thoroughgoing account of the age of revolution, a probing psychological study of a complex man, and a literary style that goes down well. Unger's biography captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail. It also explores Lafayette's idealistic but naive efforts to plant the fruits of American democracy in France, where his inspired oratory produced not the constitutional democracy he sought, but the bloody Jacobin excesses of the French Revolution. A lively and entertaining portrait of one of the most important supporting actors in the two revolutions that transformed the modern world.

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