| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Book Review

Seduced by the West: Jefferson's America and the Lure of the Land beyond the Mississippi. By Laurie Winn Carlson. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. xii + 226 pp. Maps, notes, index. $26.00.)

Weaving an exciting web of intrigue around Thomas Jefferson in persuasive prose, Laurie Winn Carlson insinuates that greed and politics motivated Jefferson's ambition for westward expansion. She cites Jefferson's communication with scoundrels General James Wilkinson and Phillip Nolan, who loved money and power more than loyalty, and with Frenchmen Edmund Genet and Andre Michaux, whose loyalties were not American. This proof could unjustly convince readers uninformed of Jefferson's vast correspondence to people of diverse political persuasions and various interests that this man of extensive abilities and unusual flexibility spent most of his energy upon connivance.

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