The Louisiana Purchase: Jefferson's Noble Bargain? (Monticello Monograph Series, Distributed for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation) Cover
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The Louisiana Purchase Jefferson's Noble Bargain? (Monticello Monograph Series, Distributed for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation)

James Lewis

Two centuries after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase, modern Americans consider the acquisition a foregone conclusion, inherent in our nation's "manifest destiny." At the time of the treaty, however, the idea of doubling the nation's size appeared to many as impossible, undesirable, and even un...

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