Title:

Undaunted Courage

Author:

Stephen E. Ambrose

Publisher:

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

International Standard Book Number: (ISBN)

0-684-81107-3

Library of Congress Card Number:

Subtitled, "Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West" this book, "Undaunted Courage" is more than simply a tale and synopsis analysis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. For scholars of history it will reveal the mood, temperament, and thinking of people like Jefferson and their contemporaries. It will and does give the reader a feel and familiarity with these early times in our countries origin, and it reveals that zeal and prospect of manifest destiny that has shaped much of our past, at least up until recent times!As you read this book, it draws you in, and you can easily imagine yourself as Meriwether Lewis or other of Jefferson's peers involved in this monumental project. This project that has by the way been compared to the magnitude of our countries Moon landing. The Moon landing, and our countries space effort to date, pales by comparison!

I have been privileged to correspond with Mr. Ambrose about this book and his thoughts on early America, as well as his thoughts on more modern times and how the sociology of our country now behaves. I have found his writings to be both clear and incisive, and his perceptions to be well conceived, as well as warm and friendly! I'm certain that to any reader who has followed our web pages Americana and History reviews, you will find this book to be as wonderful as I have. For those who are more inclined toward science or even technocracy, in this book you may see the better accurate meaning of where this latter term originates!