The Marquis de Lafayette--the Frenchman who fought in the American Revolution--was the only foreigner to hold a major position among the Founding Fathers of the new nation. From his arrival in 1777 until, a century and a half later, the words "Lafayette, we are here!" stirred support for American intervention in World War I, the evolving image of Lafayette reflected popular opinion on various domestic and foreign issues.

 

Emblem of Liberty, the first comprehensive survey of Lafayette as a symbolic figure in American intellectual history, examines the compound image of the man and the ideas he represented. Professor Anne C. Loveland has based this wide-ranging study upon the massive Lafayette manuscript collection at Cornell University as well as a great variety of other sources.

 

Anne C. Loveland is T. Harry Williams Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University. She is the author of numerous books, including American Evangelicals and the U. S. Military, 1942-1993.

ISBN: 9780807124628

Paperback

208 pages

6 x 9

Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents

LSU Press, 1999