Elston, Heidi M. D.

Summary: This biography introduces readers to Thomas Jefferson including his early political career and key events from Jefferson's administration, including the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021

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Summary: Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Ribke, Simone T.

Summary: Thomas Jefferson was our nations third president, but his contributions to the United States started years before. Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independencethe document that is the foundation of country. Throughout his life he continued to work for the betterment of the nation. The well-organized chapters help students identify key details while the photographs,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014

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Ching, Jacqueline.

Summary: Biography of the life story of Thomas Jefferson from his early education to his work in France, his time in the White House, to his retirement in Virginia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2009

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Old, Wendie C.

Summary: Explores the life of the third president, from his childhood in Virginia, through his writing of the Declaration of Independence, to his years in office.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1997

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Aldridge, Rebecca.

Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the third president of the United States.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002

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Appleby, Joyce Oldham.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003

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Fradin, Dennis B.

Summary: An illustrated biography tells the life of the third president of the United States, a book-lover, self-taught architect, and author of the Declaration of Independence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003

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Halliday, E. M. (Ernest Milton)

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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Jefferson, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation by the University Press of Virginia 1986

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Gregory, Josh.

Summary: The Fourth of July is often called our countrys birthday. What important role did Thomas Jefferson have in making this American holiday possible? Young readers will find out as they read about his writing of the Declaration of Independence, as well as his early life, his ideas for shaping a new government, and his two terms as president. They will also make connections to their own lives as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. Company 2015

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Jefferson, Thomas

Summary: HIST Thomas Jefferson, best known as the author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and as our third president, was an extraordinarily accomplished man with wide-ranging interests. From 1784 to 1789, he was America's envoy to France, during which time he also traveled widely on the European continent. From his extensive writings during these years, editors Wilson and Stanton (both with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999

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Moscow, Henry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by Golden Press 1960

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Rosenstock, Barbara

Summary: An account of how the third American president helped create the world's largest library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., shares excerpts from primary source documents that include Jefferson's thoughts on books, reading, and learning.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Pr 2013

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Kidd, Thomas S.

Summary: "Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022

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Jefferson, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1993

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Ellis, Joseph J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000

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Meacham, Jon.

Summary: "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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012

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Wood, Gordon S

Summary: "From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequentfalling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017

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