The Scientist Turned Spy: Andre Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793 - Jeffersonian America

André Michaux was the most famous scientific explorer of North America before Lewis and Clark. But there is more to his story. Patrick Spero offers a bona fide page-turner that sheds new light on an incipient American political climate that fostered reckless diplomatic ventures under the guise of scientific exploration.