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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Master of the Mountain," Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book--based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers--opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world."--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom-- a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur'an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out in 1805 on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, but at the last moment he grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government, and Eaton set off without national support. Short on supplies, given very little money and only a few men, Eaton's mission...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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Language
English
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Description
In this biography the author draws upon archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished transcripts of Jefferson presidential papers to give readers a view of Jefferson the politician and the President, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Description
Though primarily a biography of Meriwether Lewis, this book also provides fascinating sketches of Thomas Jefferson, William Clark, Sacagawea, & other contemporaries. From the bestselling author of the definitive book on D-Day comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In telling the story of the first president to occupy the White House for his full term, author of the award-winning Lincoln's White House, captures Jefferson's pivotal leadership role and the intrigues and ambitions of a deeply divided young nation.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An account of the first four United States Presidents and Virginians, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, including their personal strengths and failures as well as their political lives, and how they created a nation
Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 15
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1921
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon...
13) Thomas Jefferson's writing desk: what an artifact can tell us about the Declaration of Independence
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later the third president of the United States, was chosen to write it. But did he write every word? Did anyone help him? What are the differences between his first draft and the document signed by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776? Readers will discover the answers to these questions and find out more...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers
Author
Publisher
Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Chronicling her remarkable journey to definitively understand her heritage and reclaim it, a black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings' family offers a compelling portrait to ensure the nation lives up to the ideals advocated by her legendary ancestor.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained the stupendous problem of how to establish a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key Founding Fathers played significant roles: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Their lives and policies could not have been more different; their relationships with each other were complex and often rife with animosity. And yet these three men led...