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Title: Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase by Charles A. Cerami ISBN: 1-4022-0240-7 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well done and informative
Comment: If you need to understand the way the LA purchase was part of American history then this the book to read. The book does an excellent job of explaining Madison, Jefferson, Livingston, Marbois and Talleyrand's ideas about how to sell, buy and determine how valuable the LA purchase was. I would suggest this to anybody who loves American history and would like to find out how America almost became a French territory.
Rating: 5
Summary: From Sea to Shining Sea!
Comment: The value of Cerami's rendition of the Louisiana Purchase is l) its down-to-earth clarity, and 2) the way the historical participants come alive on every page! For those who know little or nothing about the importance of the Louisiana Purchase, this book will whet your appetite for more details of this exciting, invalualuable event that brought us the territory west of the Appalachians which, without it, we may never have become the world leader for freedom and democracy.
For those who have an understanding of why Jefferson and others forsaw the importance of U.S. expansion on this continent, the author brings the major players from the U.S., Spain and France to life for you through their negotiations, their letters, private thoughts, and individual personalities. This is history told at its best with uncomplicated clarity and at the same time gives enough pros and cons from all the countries involved to allow the reader to understand why negotiations were so difficult; and how we could have lost the whole deal had other personalities been in charge.
I now have a new sense of such simple facts as why the West became "the wild west", why the northeastern states are so small and the western states so much larger, why being one country that stretched from "sea to shining sea" gave us time to grow and mature in relative peace to European countries, and land with all the natural resources needed for independence.
Jefferson's Great Gamble whetted my appetite for more on the subject, so I bought A Wilderness So Immense, by Jon Kukla. I'm very glad I read the former first because it gave me a background to help understand Kukla's book, which I might have put down before finishing the first chapter because it's slow getting started. There are a lot of characters in Kukla's book mentioned only once (check the index) and in my opinion don't add any importance to the story of the La. Purchase; rather it makes the reading drag. But since I've a long way to go, I'll reserve final judgement on Kukla's book for now. Charles Cerami's book deserves five stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Jefferson's Great Gamble
Comment: This book was a great and fluid read all the way thru. It's a great overview of Jefferson's gamble on Madison, Livingston, Marbois, Talleyrand. Jefferson's Gamble on people. On the nation. And on the future.
Great read!
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Title: A Wilderness So Immense : The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla ISBN: 0375408126 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Fleming ISBN: 0471267384 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805 by Joseph Wheelan ISBN: 0786712325 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195170342 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser ISBN: 0743223799 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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