Download or read book The Plot to Steal Florida written by Joseph Burkholder Smith and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating, complete and dramatic account of President James Madison's plot to wrest the territory of Florida from Spain in 1811--a true-to-life historical thriller--Joseph Burkholder Smith demonstrates with erudition, wit and historical perspective that long before Vietnam and Watergate this republic's Founding Fathers practiced their own covert manipulation of the American public and foreign governments in near-Nixonian proportions.