From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom

Billy, who was so young during his older brother's exploits that he baby-talks through the first 350 pages of the book, later pushed it the rest of the way to the Pacific as a partner in that ultimate American vacation, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. George, the 'father of Kentucky,' pushed the frontier to the Mississippi before the end of the Revolution. For the rest of us, it's a rousing refresher course.īack when achievement rather than sensationalism won public recognition, George Rogers Clark and his brother William were household names. By gloriously engaging the reader in the first, and implying the second, 'From Sea to Shining Sea' turns out to be essential after all, for all those readers who look to current fiction for knowledge of their world and missed this subject the last time around. But a time when blossoming American patriotism threatens to root no more deeply than in shared television shows is a time that cries out for rediscovering some of the deeds and ideas, humanly flawed as they may have been, upon which this country was built. Eckert, Bruce Lancaster, John Bakeless and Kenneth Roberts. It's true that nobody, including Thom, can improve on such classics as the fiction and nonfiction of Allan W.

And now that I've read this splendid, if endless, new novel about the westering of America, I have to admit I was wrong and he was right. James Alexander Thom obviously disagreed. There for a while I really hadn't felt the need for another book about the opening of the American West.

From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom