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Lawrence S. Kaplan is university professor emeritus at Kent State University and adjunct professor of history at Georgetown University.Kaplan's synthesis of Jefferson sets a high standard, and the book belongs in all college and university collections.
The International History Review
Gracefully written, engrossing biography.
- Howard Jones, research professory, University of Alabama,
With this volume, Lawrence Kaplan confirms his reputation as a master of Jeffersonian studies. Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire presents a brisk but comprehensive, eminently fair-minded account of Jefferson's views and policies regarding foreign policy. By no means uncritical of Jefferson's strategic errors and wanderings from his professed principles, Kaplan nevertheless discerns a basic consistency in aims, namely, a desire to throw off European constraints and to expand the American empire.
- Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan,
Scholars will applaud this evenhanded study of Mr. Jefferson. This volume, well written and well grounded in the most recent secondary accounts, should be well received by its intended audience.
American Diplomacy
The Biographies in American Foreign Policy series employs the enduring medium of biography to examine the major episodes and themes in the history of U.S. foreign relations. By viewing policy formation and implementation from the perspective of influential participants, the series seeks to humanize and make more accessible those decisions and events that sometimes appear abstract or distant. Particular attention is devoted to those aspects of the subject's background, personality, and intellect that most influenced his or her approach to U.S. foreign policy, and each individual's role is placed in a context that takes into account domestic affairs, national interests and policies, and international and strategic considerations.
Series Editor: Joseph A. Fry