Washington's Disciple: The Marquis de Lafayette and the Quest for Liberty

Two hundred and fifty years after the American Revolution, French aristocrat Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier—the Marquis de Lafayette— remains one of its most celebrated heroes. More than an ambitious soldier who risked his life, fortune, and sacred honor for American independence, Lafayette was a man of ideas whose bold actions were animated by the high principles of the Enlightenment and by the earthy republican virtues of the American Founding. Washington's Disciple redisco...