The spectacular tale of the way Thomas Jefferson commanded an unequalled age of yank exploration—and in presiding over that period of discovery, solid a very good nation.
  
At the sunrise of the 19th century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the U.S. all jockeyed for regulate of the enormous expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American enlargement have been incalculably excessive. Even after the yank buy of the Louisiana Territory, Spain nonetheless coveted that land and was once ready to hire any potential to maintain it. With struggle anticipated at any second, Jefferson performed a video game of technique, placing at the flooring the one americans he may: a cadre of explorers who eventually annexed it via brave research.
 
Responsible for orchestrating the yankee push into the continent was once President Thomas Jefferson. He so much famously recruited Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific, yet even as there have been different groups who did an analogous paintings, in locations the place it was once much more an important. William Dunbar, George Hunter, Thomas Freeman, Peter Custis, and the dauntless Zebulon Pike—all have been dispatched on pressing missions to map the frontier and sustain a gradual correspondence with Washington approximately their findings.
 
But they weren’t consistently well-matched—with one another and positively no longer with a Spanish military of one thousand squaddies or extra. those tensions threatened to undermine Jefferson’s targets for the nascent nation, leaving the USA at risk of wasting its foothold within the West. Deeply researched and inspiringly advised, Jefferson’s America rediscovers the strong and infrequently harrowing motion from those seminal expeditions and illuminates the president’s imaginative and prescient for a continental America.