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What's the Deal?: Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase

Rhoda Blumberg

What's the Deal?: Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase

Paperback (Scholastic, Inc. March 15, 1999)
What's The Deal is 144 pages with about 60 illustrations taking up a half page or full page. These are paintings, ink drawings, and newspaper cartoons. The book begins with a six page list of a "case of characters," with a 2-sentence thumbnail description of each, for example, Rene-Robert La Salle (French explorer who claimed the Louisiana Territory in 1682), James Madison and Robert Livingston (negotiated the Louisiana Purchase Treaty), King Louis XV (gave Louisiana Territory to Spain, that is, to his cousin King Charles III of Spain), and Napoleon (took back the Louisiana Territory and sold it to the U.S.).
ISBN
0439129206 / 9780439129206
Pages
144
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
10.7 x 8.5 in.

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