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"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 correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2022]
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English
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"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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2016.
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Español
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¿Sabía usted que John Adams tuvo que engatusar a Thomas Jefferson en la escritura de la Declaración de Independencia? El hombre de Estado de Virginia tímido se rechazó al principio, pero entonces continuó a escribir uno de nuestros documentos nacionales más importantes e inspiradores. El tercer presidente estadounidense, Jefferson era también un arquitecto, el inventor, el músico, el agricultor, y - que es seguramente la mayor parte de aspecto...
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[2016]
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English
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Jefferson was a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Gordon-Reed and Onuf dispel the many clichés that have accrued over the years, and trace his philosophical development from youth to old age. In doing so, they challenge much of what we have come to accept about Jefferson, and reintroduce us to a man more gifted than most, but complicated in just the ways we all are.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed...
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