"Sadosky's achievement in this outstanding work is to cast an altogether fresh light on the early diplomacy of the United States, in which were mingled closely together the imperatives of constructing union among the thirteen states and conducting diplomacy with European and Indian nations. With equal parts attention to inner travails of the union and the diplomacy of its eastern ... Read moreand western borders, we gain a portrait of the relationship among these spheres that is very original and convincing." - David Hendrickson, Colorado College, coauthor of The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose "By joining diplomatic history to Native American history, Sadosky compels us to change the way we think about both subjects. He also offers us a wonderful narrative that we can assign to our students. If one measure of the importance of a young scholar is the way his or her book changes how we think about the past, and our use of the scholar's book in class, then I would include Sadosky in a group of a handful of historians from his generation who will have a large impact on the field of early American history." - Paul A. Gilje, George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma" Show Less