I think this is the third Sarah Vowell book I've read and it doesn't deviate from her trademark quippy, opiniated yet informative, history treatments. Although ostensibly about Lafayette, it's as much about George Washington so I sometimes forgot which book I was reading as I was concurrently working my way through Travels with George, and both books presented were on message with Washington was cool and Jefferson overrated. The overarching story of Vowell's book however is about the role France played in the Revolution. French fries really are freedom fries.