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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Frank W. Brecher. Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance. (Contributions in the Study of World History.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2003. Pp. xiv, 327. $74.95.

This monograph on the diplomacy of the American Revolution is the second volume in a trilogy on Franco-American relations that will cover the period from the French and Indian War to the Louisiana Purchase. It purports to concentrate on John Jay's relations with France in the making of the alliance in 1778 and in the subsequent peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The book does not break new ground. The story is familiar, and Frank W. Brecher credits the long line of scholars who have preceded him in this area. Although not an academic specialist in American diplomatic history, the author, a former senior officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, has immersed himself in the primary and secondary sources to produce a sprightly, authoritative account of the major issues in the complicated relationship between the emerging nation and its senior partner in the war for American independence. Of the 226 pages of text, sixty-seven are given to extensive and often enlightening footnotes, although their provenance is not always clear.

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