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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes , a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality. On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been thirty years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, Congress had just fought its first epic battle over slavery, and the threat of a Civil War loomed. But Lafayette, belonging to neither North nor South, to no...

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Author

Vowell, Sarah

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594631740

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Military, Memoir

Rating

3.82 / 5 (8,488 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14