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Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"Eric S. Peterson has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson's published works to fashion thirty-four original essays on themes ranging form patriotism and liberty to hope, humility, and gratitude. The result is a distillation of the wisdom of one of America's greatest political thinkers." "In the essays that Peterson has crafted from letters, speeches, and public documents, Jefferson's unique moral philosophy and vision shine through."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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...
8) Monticello
Author
Publisher
Dillon Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
This is a history of Monticello, the Virginia country estate, which Thomas Jefferson designed and built as his primary residence.
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings chronicles the relationship between Jefferson and his slave and the life of their son, Thomas Woodson, and discusses the Woodson family's efforts to uncover the truth about the different branches of their family tree.
14) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and times of the multifaceted man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the third president of the United States.
16) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief overview of the life of the third President.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of Thomas Jefferson, who in addition to his acccomplishments as a politician and president was also talented in the field of agriculture.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Kranish describes Jefferson's many stumbles as he struggled to respond to the British invasion of colonial Virginia, and along the way, the author paints an intimate portrait of Jefferson, illuminating his quiet conversations, his family turmoil, his private hours at Monticello, and the lessons he learned during those dark hours as Virginia's governor that would serve him all his life.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1784, travel wrenched Thomas Jefferson out of the darkest period of his life. He sailed to France a broken man, but on the road, he rediscovered a world of hidden beauty and penned a guide he called Hints for Americans Traveling in Europe. During a crisis of his own, Derek Baxter dares himself to follow Jefferson's route. On a series of journeys (piloting a Dutch canal boat, hiking the French Alps, and fishing in the Atlantic), Baxter follows...
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