A Novel of Lafayette-A Lafayette, Book II

Ride alongside a young idealist who gambled his family's vast fortune and court connections to help a most dubious, distant cause, fighting in the New World against the English monarchy, with a rag-tag band of rebels. Follow him to the king's court in Versailles after a free-rein childhood in the far province of France.Join the lanky red-haired dreamer who bought ships and guns for those rebels, then led them across the smoky battlefields of New Jersey, kept up their morale in the frozen, disease-ridden camp at Valley Forge, and helped lead them to triumph at the cannon-shattered redoubts of Yorktown.Be a party to the most surprising twists of fate and ambition in which this true hero played such a central role, so you can see how he helped achieve the lofty, never-before-realized ideals of the Age of Reason--a free government, on the shores of an unlikely new republic.