Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike DuncanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Lafayette is probably the only person who was so heavily involved in the American Revolution and then sailed back to France to be very heavily involved in the French Revolution. Needless to say, this is an interesting man, which makes for a very interesting biography.
Through Lafayette, you can also trace the zeal for liberty in America, and how that spread to Europe, and more specifically France, but the unfortunate iteration it ended up taking there. All the while, it reads like an adventure novel.
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