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From the best-selling writer of Assassination Holiday and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the brand new War hero Marquis de Lafayette - the one Frenchman we could all acknowledge - and an insightful portrait of any nation's idealism and its own reality. On August 16, 1824, an older French gentlemen sailed into NY Harbor, and giddy People in america have there been to welcome him. Or, alternatively, to welcome him back. It turned out 30 years since he had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of NY at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of the very most contentious presidential elections in American background. Congress had just fought its first epic challenge over slavery, and the threat of a Civil War loomed. But Lafayette, owned by neither North nor South, to no political party or faction, was a walking, chatting reminder of the sacrifices and bravery of the revolutionary era and what they wanted this country to be. His return was not just a reunion along with his beloved People in america; it was a reunion for People in america with the own amazing, singular past. Lafayette in the Somewhat United Areas is a humorous and insightful portrait of the famed Frenchman, the impact he had on our young country, and his ongoing relationship with instrumental People in america of the time, including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and many more. John Slattery as the Marquis de Lafayette
Nick Offerman as George Washington
Fred Armisen as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Bobby Cannavale as Benjamin Franklin
John Hodgman as John Adams
Stephanie March as Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwight and Linda Williams
Alexis Denisof as The British isles Control
Patton Oswalt as Thomas Jefferson and Sherm
