The Story of Thomas Jefferson

This book, originally published in 1922, is part of a highly readable and enjoyable series of books, Famous Americans for Young Readers, which includes volumes on Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, and others. These stories of statesmen, presidents, and inventors are presented to inspire students to follow their examples of courage, determination, honesty, and willingness to work. Suitable for young readers and adults.

From the book’s preface: “In placing before the young people of America the story of the life of the great and good man, Thomas Jefferson, the writer has hoped to contribute something, however slight, toward their advancement in upright Americanism. If imagination has had some small part in the telling of this, it has been used sparingly in the effort to breathe life again into those long dead days of struggle and growth toward an ideal.”

CONTENTS

I. Danger on the Border
II. A Challenge
III. Off to College
IV. The Law Student
V. Days at Home
VI. The New Governor
VII. A Stormy Wedding Journey
VIII. A Foretaste of War
IX. The Continental Congress
X. A Blow at Virginia
XI. Declaration of Independence
XII. For Old Virginia
XIII. Governor Jefferson
XIV. A Traitor’s Raid
XV. A Hair-Breadth Escape
XVI. In Paris
XVII. Home Again
XVIII. President Jefferson
XIX. A Pirate Story
XX. Opening Up the Great West
XXI. A Threat of War
XXII. A Final Service to his State
XXIII. The End of a Busy Life