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Jan 14, 2020 · Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his ...
“A noteworthy journalist of present events, Steve Inskeep turns his talents to the nineteenth-century past in this dual biography of Jessie and John C. Frémont. The title, Imperfect Union, is a pun describing both the Union of slave and free states and the union between Jessie and John. The story is engagingly written, rich in new ...
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About Imperfect Union. Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America’s first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth ...
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Jan 14, 2020 · IMPERFECT UNION. How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped The West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. By Steve Inskeep. Illustrated. 449 pages. Penguin Press. $32. A version of this ...
Jan 14, 2020 · Inskeep casts a wide net. “Imperfect Union” is not only a dual biography of Fremont and his colorful and capable wife Jessie. Inskeep also includes mini-biographies of Jessie’s father, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, Fremont’s multi-ethnic/lingual teams, his contemporaries and even the historical context--all in 353 pages.
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Jan 14, 2020 · IMPERFECT UNION HOW JESSIE AND JOHN FRÉMONT MAPPED THE WEST, INVENTED CELEBRITY, AND HELPED CAUSE THE CIVIL WAR. by Steve Inskeep ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 14, 2020. A lively introduction to a pair of flawed yet extraordinary figures in the nation’s movement westward.
