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Stephen ambrose undaunted courage6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ken Burns called it "grade school history you forgot." Ambrose's passion for detail reveals far more than that, especially Sacajawea's true importance in the success of the expedition. I gave this one star because the book is really really great.Īmbrose's passion for history and study of leadership fueled this masterwork: the best and most definitive-to-date examination and interpretation of the Corps of Discovery, their extraordinary co-Captains, and the first expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Country up the Missouri, across the Rockies, and down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. If a better performer was to do this book over, I would buy it in a minute. ![]() Please try the sample before you buy this audiobook and know that what you hear is what you get - the same nasal tone and lack of emphasis throughout. Whitener is a reader from the very early days of "books-on-tape" and maybe I have been spoiled by the performances of Jim Dale, but I just couldn't listen to this book. Sad to say that the flat, droning, expressionless, uninspired (I could go on) narration ruined the book for me. ![]() I purchaed the audio version because I was planning to drive to Montana from Florida and I thought this book would be a fantastic counterpoint to my lengthy journey. Ambrose's skill really broadened my reading experience and I have read many many historical books since because of it. I read this great book many years ago when it was first published and found it facinating. ![]()
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