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European Interim Aid and Government and Relief in Occupied Areas
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session
出版U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=grCk4uS1hKUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were. Their leaders, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, were often seen as father and son, but their relationship, while close, was every bit as complex as the long, fraught history of the French-American alliance. Vain, tough, ambitious, they strove to shape their characters and records into the form they wanted history to remember.--From publisher description.