Laura Auricchio: Lafayette Reconsidered

Please join us on Wednesday, June 10 from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Redwood Library & Athenaeum, when Laura Auricchio, Chair of Humanities, The New School for Public Engagement and Associate Professor of Art History, Parsons The New School for Design, discusses her new book, “The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered.” Ms. Auricchio is a specialist in eighteenth-century French history and art who received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She received her doctorate with distinction at Columbia in 2000, sponsored by Simon Schama. Auricchio has been the recipient of major fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and Columbia University. She has taught at Princeton University and Connecticut College, and is currently the Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School in New York. Her visit to the Redwood is a special event planned in honor of the visit of the French navy frigate L’Hermione to Newport.

THE MARQUIS: Lafayette Reconsidered (Knopf, October 2014) looks past the storybook hero and who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justicecommemorated in America’s towns, streets and parks that bear his name. Auricchio gives us a rich portrait of the man from birth to death, a man driven by dreams of glory and felled by tragic, human weaknesses.

$10 for members, $20 for non-members. Seating is very limited; please call 847-0295, ext. 112, to make your reservation.