Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution.(Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815)(Book review)

Journal of the Early Republic | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution. By Melanie Randolph Miller. (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. 284. Cloth, $30.00.)

Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815. By Peter P. Hill. (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. 289. Cloth, $29.95.)

As the most recent French-American quarrel subsides, the books under review offer a wealth of material for revisiting the beginnings of the two nations' long-contentious relationship. Peter P. Hill's analysis of high-level diplomacy in the little-studied ...

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