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...