Thomas Jefferson: America's 3rd President

By Don Nardo

Book Overview

In the Declaration of Independence, young Thomas Jefferson became the voice of the American Revolution and expressed a timeless faith in the rights of individuals. In following years. Jefferson revealed talents as a politieal philosopher, an author, a naturalist, an inventor, an architeet, and an agricultural experimenter. At the same time, he served as governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, and vice president. As our third president, he arranged the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the area of the United States, and struggled to keep the country out the wars then embroiling Europe. Book jacket.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0516227688
• ISBN13: 9780516227689
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8