Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation, (Paperback)

from Forthwith

It ended. The book ended and I wanted it to go on. This masterfully tells the story of the age of the early explorations of the American West by Americans. We may know some of the epic Lewis and Clark expeditions but this book sets those in the context of Jefferson's wider strategy. Within the wi...

from Karlstar

A detailed writeup of the multiple expeditions that explored the Louisiana Purchase. Despite the title, this is not so much about the USA at the time or world politics, but it is about the explorers of the Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Red rivers. Everyone has heard about Louis and Clark, b...

from DeaconBernie

Fascinating book. Though most American school kids know that Pres. Jefferson made the Louisianna Purchase, few are aware that this was not a benign transaction. Indeed, there was a lot of opposition from the former owner, the Spanish, who felt cheated when Napoleon made a very easy bargain with t...

from santhony

This non-fiction look at the Louisiana Purchase and the subsequent explorations directed by then U. S. President Thomas Jefferson has as its subject one of the most fascinating periods of American history. While it does not contain the detail of other works on the subject, most specifically Steph...

from JaneAustenNut

Jeffersonian exploration and the men who made it possible is the overriding theme of this work. Thomas Jefferson's vision of what America could become ( landmass expansion for the country ) was the grand idea, but, it took great explorers to make it possible. We all know about Lewis and Clark and...