Jefferson's Great Gamble
Subtitle: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781402202407
Subjects: United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - General; Territorial expansion; History: American; History; History - U.S.; United States - General; United States - Antebellum Era; United States; 1743-1826; Jefferson, Thomas,; Louisiana Purchase
First sentence: The new country was just a few years old when a wild, stomping rush toward the west gathered alarming speed and force in the 1790s.