Edward G. Gray is associate professor of history at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He received an NEH research grant to work on his biography of John Ledyard.
The eighteenth-century traveler, writer, and social climber John Ledyard joins Thomas Jefferson and a famed circle of expatriates in Paris.
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