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"This book unquestionably establishes Thomas Slaughter as one of the subtlest, most insightful historians writing today. Readers will emerge from this exploration with a new understanding of Lewis and Clark and their famous expedition."
--Thomas Fleming, author of Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America

"Tom Slaughter’s Exploring Lewis and Clark is a sometimes wickedly delightful re-examination of our legend of the Lewis and Clark expedition."
--Kenneth A. Lockridge, author of The Diary amd Life of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744

“[The book] to read first. . . Slaughter marches into the voluminous pages of the journals of the expedition (and the legend that has grown around them) and performs a scintillating close reading, thinking deeply about the attitudes, wishes, and dreams of the men who wrote them. . . Slaughter at his best is wise and observant, even empathetic. . . other chapters, though, delve deep and ask questions that will forever change my reading of these men.”
–Bill Roorbach, Newsday

“A rueful reading of the historical record that delights in considering some of the thorniest questions within it. . . Three million words of firsthand history cannot tell us, but Slaughter gives us some reasonable and altogether fascinating guesses. They could not be timelier. . . and deserve our close attention at the dawn of yet another American empire.”
–Gregory McNamee, Washington Post Book World

“In a provocative new book. . . Thomas P. Slaughter argues that [the mythology of the explorer] was even pursued by Lewis and Clark, neither of whom was what he seemed.”
–Edward Rothstein, New York Times

“Slaughter’s fascinating new book. . . stands on the shoulders of the past century’s scholarship. It also stands some of the scholarship on its head. Where Thomas Jefferson saw ‘courage undaunted,’ Slaughter rediscovers the daunting challenges that inspired both anxiety and valor.”
–John Kukla, Times-Picayune

"Pensive and lyrical....A rich, provocative work...."

Kirkus, 11/01/2002

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