| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. Ed. by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. x, 222 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-8139-2313-1.)

Space is clearly at a premium on Lewis and Clark bookshelves as a consequence of a deluge of new publications inspired by the bicentennial of Thomas Jefferson's vaunted voyage of discovery. Significantly, many of the more compelling additions to this latest literary outpouring bypass the actual journey to focus on the expedition in a larger historical context apart from the traditional celebratory narrative of westward expansion. Across the Continent is a noteworthy example of this trend. In making selections for their multidisciplinary collection of essays, editors Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf opted to look beyond the expedition in order to "explore the complicated ways in which the explorers' world connects to our own" (p. 6).

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