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John and Jessie went hand in hand with Western expansion. Sally Denton focuses on an early American power couple in her latest book, switching gears from writing about the Mormons to address the story of Manifest Destiny. Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Frémont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America (Bloomsbury …
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