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Author
Pub. Date
2012
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 hat 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Patsy becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother's death. She travels with him when he becomes American minister to France. It is in Paris that Patsy learns about her father's liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love with her father's protégé William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Her choices will...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
14) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the author of the Declaration of Independence, who later became the third president of the United States.
15) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating story, readers spend a day with Thomas Jefferson as he and his grandson visit the vast plantation of Monticello. Readers learn about Jefferson, the gadgets and household items that he reinterpreted and the plow he invented, the famous house, the surrounding farms with their gardens, fields, factories, and mills, the workshops of the enslaved people on Mulberry Row, and much, much more.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson loved to read and collect books on almost every subject. He built his first library as a young man, and kept on building until his book collection helped to create the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the world's largest library.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people's responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating collection, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham has gathered Jefferson's most powerful and provocative reflections on the subject, drawn from public speeches and documents as well...
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