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Marquis
- Lafayette Reconsidered
- By: Laura Auricchio
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, looks past the storybook general and selfless champion of righteous causes who, at the age of 19, volunteered to fight under George Washington, casting aside fortune and family (from one of France's oldest families; his ancestors served in the Crusades and alongside Joan of Arc) to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice.
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Lafayette: A Hit Abroad! & A Miss at Home!
- By James on 03-05-15
- Marquis
- Lafayette Reconsidered
- By: Laura Auricchio
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Power of joy in life
Reviewed: 05-12-16
William Morris is a Victorian giant known as the father of Arts and Crafts Movement. He is also renowned as a socialist thinker and a poet.
His diatribe against the wrongdoing of his era tends to quickly get tedious and the remedies for it often sound fanciful. However, you are treated to a view of his genuine passions and joys throughout the book. His affection for the landscapes and the architectures of England along with that for people and the arts are genuinely uplifting.
The description of the protagonist's abrupt loss of the newly acquainted utopia remains haunting.
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