The Peasant Prince

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, “a sweeping, colorful, and absorbing biography that should restore Kosciuszko to his proper place in history” ( Newsweek ). Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. He came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, literally showing up on Benjamin Franklin's doorstep with little more than a revolutionary spirit and a genius for engineering. Enterin