With rave reviews from critics and readers alike, Kosciuszko finally receives his proper place in history.
The Peasant Prince is the story of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-American revolutionary who fought for the rights of Black Slaves, White Peasants, Jews, Native Americans and Women. Thomas Jefferson said of him: “He is as pure a son of liberty, as I have ever known.”
Kosciuszko joined the Continental Army in 1776, and devised the plan for the Battle of Saratoga – the turning point of the American Revolution. He also drafted the blueprints for West Point that Benedict Arnold tried to sell to the British. After the war, Kosciuszko asked Jefferson to use his salary from the Revolution to buy slaves and free them.
Newsweek called The Peasant Prince, “absorbing,” The New York Observer called it “riveting,” and The Wall Street Journal called it “an accessible, soundly researched, biography [with] . . . a supporting cast that amounts to a Who’s Who of 18th-century American and European history.”
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lech Walesa said, “This important book familiarizes Americans with a mutual hero who shaped the future of both of our nations, Poland and the United States.”
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