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LAFAYETTEAndreas LatzkoDoubleday, Doran ($3). From his day to the present, Lafayette has been one of the lustrous names every U. S. schoolboy has known. Aside from his name, little that is true about him remains in the grade-schooled memory, in which he figures as a mincing French marquis who served on George Washington's staff and then went back to France to live happily ever after. Andreas Latzko's biography corrects this misconception, fills in the full-length portrait of Lafayette with many a forgotten fact. No Strachey, Latzko makes no bones about his admiration...
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