Dean of the School of Architecture Quilian Riano was invited to recommend a summer reading book for the readers of Archinect, and he chose Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by the historian Mike Duncan. “As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I am revisiting Hero of Two Worlds, by historian Mike Duncan. The book presents a timely portrait of one of the key figures in the US war for independence, the Marquis de Lafayette, exploring what may have been his lifelong defining trait, a rigid adherence to a set of ideals even when the world around him was swinging violently between radicalism and reaction.”
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