Description
In a biography that looks past the storybook hero who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice, Laura Auricchio gives us a rich portrait of a man driven by dreams of glory and felled by tragic, human weaknesses. We come to understand the personal struggles, social quandaries, and idealistic visions that inspired an orphaned young nobleman to cross an ocean at age nineteen to fight a war that was none of his concern.
AUTHOR: Laura Auricchio
GENRE: Biography; Non-Fiction, History
PUBLISHING: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. ©2014.
ISBN: 9780307267559
PAGE COUNT: 409 pages, illustrations
