Ploughshares likes The Louisiana Purchase by Jim Goar...

Reviewer Shannon Wagner likes it so much, in fact, that she compares Goar's book to "an enormous macaroni necklace," and says:

Goar’s young America exists as lore. By calling on a time when vast areas of the country were unexplored, Goar is free to mythologize America and create a country in his mind.

Read the whole smart and hilarious write-up here. Thanks, Shannon!