Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

Assessing the legendary Frenchman and his remarkable military career on both sides of the Atlantic

The Marquis de Lafayette is an icon of both American and French history. In Marc Leepson’s concise and engaging biography of this captivating figure, we learn how Lafayette, born into an aristocratic French family of warriors, traveled to the colonies at the age of nineteen to fight as a volunteer in the American Revolutionary War. Continental Army Major General Lafayette was soon embraced by ...