I, Lafayette Kindle Edition

Lafayette’s own words and those of his contemporaries help to create thisnarrative non-fiction in the form of an autobiography. Lafayette recounts his lifeas it happens, tracing his path through three revolutions, the Napoleonic yearsand the Restoration. We see what he sees; we experience events as heexperiences them; we know only what he knows. Factual, detailed, oftendramatic, historically accurate, his conversations, thoughts and actions arealways referenced from original sources in English and French. The present tenseensures a vividness of time and place. It is history but it is happening now. A sonof the wild Auvergne, he wants to follow in the footsteps of Vercingetorix whotook up arms for the liberty of all. He sees Washington as his adopted father andthe United States as his adopted country; in death he has his grave covered byearth from Bunker Hill. He espouses the cause of liberty for the whole of his life. Read more