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Author:
Chaffin, Tom, author.
Title:
Revolutionary brothers (Playaway) : Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations / Tom Chaffin.
Format:
(Playaway) :
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher:
Findaway WorldLLC,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 audio media player (approximately 17 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Subject:
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Friends and associates.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier,--marquis de,--1757-1834--Friends and associates.
United States--Participation, French.--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
Diplomats--United States--Biography.
Statesmen--France--Biography.
Revolutionaries--France--History--18th century.
Audiobooks.
Other Authors:
Adamson, Rick, narrator.
Macmillan Audio (Firm)
Playaway Digital Audio.
Findaway World, LLC.
Notes:
Title from container. "HD." "Light." Read by Rick Adamson. Previously released by Macmillan Audio, ℗2019. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Summary:
"Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions?and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the states governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman. But when Jefferson, a newly-appointed diplomat, moved to Paris three years later, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest. As Lafayette opened doors in Paris and Versailles for Jefferson, so too did the Virginian stand by Lafayette as the Frenchman became inexorably drawn into the maelstrom of his country's revolution. Jefferson counseled Lafayette as he drafted The Declaration of the Rights of Man and remained a firm supporter of the French Revolution, even after he returned to America in 1789. By 1792, however, the upheaval had rendered Lafayette a man without a country, locked away in a succession of Austrian and Prussian prisons. The burden fell on Jefferson and Lafayette's other friends to win his release. The two would not see each other again until 1824, in a powerful and emotional reunion at Jeffersons Monticello. Steeped in primary sources, Revolutionary Brothers casts fresh light on this remarkable, often complicated, friendship of two extraordinary men."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1250763770
9781250763778
Locations:
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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