Professor of History Maurice Isserman is the author and an editor of Across America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition (Facts on File, 8/04). According to the publisher, the book "opens with President Thomas Jefferson's receipt in August 1805 of a wagonload of animal skins, dried plants, insects, an Indian bow and many other items that Meriwether Lewis had sent him four months earlier. Around that same time, Meriwether Lewis and three other members of the Corps of Discovery crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass and realized that the expedition still had far to go to reach the Pacific Ocean. With full coverage of the events leading to the Corps of Discovery's formation and its gripping adventures to the Pacific and back, this book details these explorers' travels and trials."
Isserman holds a Ph.D. and master's degree from the University of Rochester and a bachelor's degree in history from Reed College. He specializes in 20th-century U.S. history and the history of exploration. He was a Fulbright distinguished lecturere at Moscow State University and is the author of 12 books. Isserman is co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. His most recent book, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, has been named to countless non-fiction "must-read" lists.
