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Robert co-founded Insurance4USA.com, an insurance quote shopping service, in 1999. He has been a licensed insurance agent in New York State since 1990.
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Jefferson - $19.99 The contradictions and complexities of American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson serve as the subjects of this documentary from filmmaker Trey Nelson. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Jefferson $17.18 Rated: PGSynopsis: Thomas Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable. His life is a seemingly impenetrable thicket of contradictions: he enshrined the words All Men are Created Equal, and yet was a lifelong slave-owner; he was simultaneously a man of the people and the personification of the Virginia aristocrat; he was a die-hard American revolutionary who was also a dedicated lover of European culture and art; he advocated ruthless fiscal responsibility as president, yet his own finances were mired in debt. |
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Joseph Jefferson, American Actor, 1870 $19.99 Joseph Jefferson, American Actor, 1870 - Premium Poster |
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The Jefferson Image in the American Mind $50.36 Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson's focus is "not primarily with the truth or falsity of the image either as a whole or in its parts, but rather with its illuminations of the evolving culture and its shaping power. It is posterity's configuration of Jefferson. Even more, however, it is a sensitive reflector, through several generations, of America's troubled search of the image of itself." In a new Introduction Peterson discusses the publication of his book and remarks in the directions of new scholarship. He also draws attention to the continuing interest in Jefferson as shown by recent historical fiction, motion pictures and documentaries, by the remaning of the Libarary of Congress main building and the National Gallery of Art's exhibition, The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, by President William Jefferson Clinton's preinagural pilgrimage to Monticello, and by the Sotheby's auction of a Jefferson letter that commanded the highest auction price ever paid for such a manuscript. |
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The Capture of Jefferson Davis; American Civil War, 1865 $39.99 The Capture of Jefferson Davis; American Civil War, 1865 - Giclee Print |
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Thomas Jefferson (Unabridged) $9.99 Few presidents embody the American spirit as fully as Thomas Jefferson... |
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Thomas Jefferson's Cook Book $30.61 Collection Of Recipes Which Jefferson Gathered While American Minister In Paris. |
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Thomas Jefferson $8.99 Thomas Jefferson was a great American. He served his country in many ways. He helped America win freedom from Great Britain. He wrote laws that gave people more rights. Discover more in this book about the life of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. 32 pages |
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Jefferson Davis, American $14.99 From a distinguished historian of the America South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union-as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he considered himself a patriot. William J. Cooper shows us how Davis' initial reluctance turned into absolute commitment to the Confederacy. He provides a thorough account of Davis' life, both as the Confederate President and in the years before and after the war. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Jefferson Davis, American is the definitive examination of one of the most enigmatic figures in our nation's history. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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The Jefferson Bible $9.99 A uniquely attractive, compact edition of Thomas Jefferson's classic abridgment of the Bible, in which Jefferson sculpted the words and ideas of Christ into a resounding moral philosophy. "To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself." -Thomas Jefferson, 1803 With these words, written to a personal friend, Thomas Jefferson began one of the most audacious religious experiments in American history. On and off for the next seventeen years (including his term in the White House), Jefferson cut and pasted the philosophy of Jesus Christ, as recorded in Scripture, into one compact statement. He purposefully omitted any references to the virgin birth, miraculous healings, demonic possession, or supernatural events of any kind. His aim was to distinguish the moral philosophy of Christ from the religion that was later created around Christ. This hardcover replica of The Jefferson Bible restores to print a handsome, immensely accessible version of Jefferson's manifesto as it was published for general readers in 1940 by Grosset & Dunlap. This volume includes the original 1940 foreword by editor Douglas E. Lurton, which provides an engaging introduction to the history behind Jefferson's effort. Jefferson's selections are beautifully recomposed in a dignifi ed yet pleasing style for a gem of compactness and clarity. |
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Jefferson Barracks $17.49 Since it was founded in 1826, Jefferson Barracks has stood for nearly two centuries as a symbol for many aspects of America's history. Many explorative expeditions in the 19th century launched from Jefferson Barracks, an iconic gateway to the West during the country's expansion. A training ground for new programs, Jefferson Barracks was the home of America's first permanent Dragoons (later the United States Cavalry), first School of Infantry, and first regiment of buffalo soldiers. The largest induction and mustering-out center during both the First and Second World Wars, it housed and trained a myriad of soldiers before and after their deployments. Now the home of the Missouri Air National Guard, a Veterans Administration hospital, Jefferson Barracks Historic Park, a national cemetery, and a growing museum district, Jefferson Barracks is preserving its place in history as well as serving toward America's future. The historic images in this book illustrate a rich history of Jefferson Barracks through some of its citizen soldiers--famous and not--and through the incidents that made it an American icon. |
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Thomas Jefferson His Permanent Influence of American Institutions $29.54 1913. The substance of this volume originated from lectures delivered by John Sharp Williams, United States Senator from Mississippi to Columbia University. Contents: Jefferson the Revolutionist; Jefferson the Democratizer of State Institutions; Jefferson's Influence as a Diplomat; Jefferson the Democratizer of Federal Institutions; The Influence of Jefferson as President; Jefferson's Influence on Freedom of Religion in America; Jefferson's Influence on Our Educational Institutions. |
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Jefferson Airplane $90.81 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success. The band performed at all three of the most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969) and Altamont (1969) as well as headlining the first Isle of Wight festival. Their recordings were internationally successful, and they scored two US Top 10 hit singles and a string of Top 20 albums. Their 1967 record Surrealistic Pillow is regarded as one of the key recordings of the socalled Summer of Love and brought the group international recognition. Two chart hits from the album, Somebody to Love and White Rabbit, are listed in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Successor bands to Jefferson Airplane include Jefferson Starship and Starship; spinoffs include Hot Tuna and KBC Band. Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 134 Publication Date: 2010/08/20 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.31 inches |
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Madison and Jefferson $30.25 A WATERSHED ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY In Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of two extraordinary founders, creating a superb dual biography that is a thrilling and unprecedented account of early America. The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years. In most histories, the elder figure, Jefferson, looms larger. Yet Madison is privileged in this book's title because, as Burstein and Isenberg reveal, he was the senior partner at key moments in the formation of the two-party system. It was Madison who did the most to initiate George Washington's presidency while Jefferson was in France in the role of diplomat. So often described as shy, the Madison of this account is quite assertive. Yet he regularly escapes bad press, while Jefferson's daring pen earns him a nearly constant barrage of partisan attacks. In Madison and Jefferson we see the two as privileged young men in a land marked by tribal identities rather than a united national personality. They were raised to always ask first: "How will this play in Virginia?" Burstein and Isenberg powerfully capture Madison's secret canny role--he acted in effect as a campaign manager--in Jefferson's career. In riveting detail, the authors chart the courses of two very different presidencies: Jefferson's driven by force of personality, Madison's sustained by a militancy that history has been reluctant to ascribe to him. The aggressive expansionism of the presidents has long been underplayed, but it's noteworthy that even after the Louisiana Purchase more than doubled U.S. territory, the pair contrived to purchase Cuba and, for years, looked for ways to conquer Canada. In these and other issues, what they said in private and wrote anonymously was often more influential than what they signed their names to. Supported by a wealth of original sources--newspapers, letters, diaries, pamphlets--Madison and Jefferson is a stunning new look at a remarkable duo who arguably did more than all the others in their generation to set the course of American political development. It untangles a rich legacy, explaining how history made Jefferson into a national icon, leaving Madison a relative unknown. It tells nasty truths about the conduct of politics when America was young and reintroduces us to colorful personalities, once famous and now obscure, who influenced and were influenced by the two revolutionary actors around whom this story turns. As an intense narrative of high-stakes competition, Madison and Jefferson exposes the beating |
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Jefferson's Empire Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood the Language of American Nationhood $33.7 Thomas Jefferson believed that the American revolution was a transformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that his own efforts as a founding statesman and theorist would help construct a progressive and enlightened order for the new American nation that would be a model and inspiration for the world. Peter S. Onuf's new book traces Jefferson's vision of the American future to its roots in his idealized notions of nationhood and empire. Onuf's unsettling recognition that Jefferson's famed egalitarianism was elaborated in an imperial context yields strikingly original interpretations of our national identity and our ideas of race, of westward expansion and the Civil War, and of American global dominance in the twentieth century. Jefferson's vision of an American "empire for liberty" was modeled on a British prototype. But as a consensual union of self-governing republics without a metropolis, Jefferson's American empire would be free of exploitation by a corrupt imperial ruling class. It would avoid the cycle of war and destruction that had characterized the European balance of power. The Civil War cast in high relief the tragic limitations of Jefferson's political vision. After the Union victory, as the reconstructed nation-state developed into a world power, dreams of the United States as an ever-expanding empire of peacefully coexisting states quickly faded from memory. Yet even as the antebellum federal union disintegrated, a Jeffersonian nationalism, proudly conscious of America's historic revolution against imperial domination, grew up in its place. In Onuf's view, Jefferson's quest to define a new American identity also shaped his ambivalent conceptions of slavery and Native American rights. His revolutionary fervor led him to see Indians as "merciless savages" who ravaged the frontiers at the British king's direction, but when those frontiers were pacified, a more benevolent Jefferson encouraged these same Indians to embrace republican values. African American slaves, by contrast, constituted an unassimilable captive nation, unjustly wrenched from its African homeland. His great panacea: colonization. Jefferson's ideas about race reveal the limitations of his conception of American nationhood. Yet, as Onuf strikingly documents, Jefferson's vision of a republican empire--a regime of peace, prosperity, and union without coercion--continues to define and expand the boundaries of American national identity. |
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President Jefferson Davis Leaves His Escort; American Civil $39.99 President Jefferson Davis Leaves His Escort; American Civil - Giclee Print |
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Joseph Jefferson American Actor, Here in the Attire of Bob Acres $39.99 Joseph Jefferson American Actor, Here in the Attire of Bob Acres - Giclee Print |
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Jefferson Davis: An American President [3 Discs] - $29.99 Includes:Jefferson Davis: An American President: American Patriot (2008) Jefferson Davis: An American President: President (2008) Jefferson Davis: An American President: Shattered Hero (2008) Jefferson Davis: An American President: American Patriot This biography of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), who served as the president of the Confederate States of America, begins with his birth in western Kentucky, and his education in Lexington and West Point. Also included are the death of his first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor (1814-1835), his burgeoning political career, and his servce in the Mexican War. ~ Jeff Gemmill, Rovi Jefferson Davis: An American President: President This episode recounts Jefferson Davis' appointment as provisional Confederate president, in February 1861. Also includd are the firing on Fort Sumter, the decision to make Richmond the capitol of the Confederacy, and the election of Davis as president. ~ Jeff Gemmill, Rovi Jefferson Davis: An American President: Shattered Hero This episde details Jefferson Davis' post-Civil War life, including his imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Virgnia. ~ Jeff Gemmill, Rovi |
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Jefferson Roblee $79.66 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jefferson Roblee (born May 3, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) is an American soccer coach. Jefferson Roblee is the current head coach of the Kansas City Brass in Premier Development League of the United Soccer Leagues.c Roblee is also the current associate head coach of the mens and womens soccer teams at William Jewell College. He has a history of developing elite players and elite teams, Identical twin brother of American soccer coach Lincoln Roblee. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2010/07/25 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.28 inches |
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Brenden Jefferson $89.22 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brenden Richard Jefferson (born June 3, 1986) is an American film and television actor and songwriter. Born in San Bernardino, California, Jefferson is an only child.He has made various appearances in TV shows including The Parent Hood, The Steve Harvey Show, Even Stevens, Smart Guy, and the shortlived sitcom Thea, and is most notable for his role as Rex XRay Washburn in the 2003 Disney film, Holes. His most recent appearance was in the 2004 television movie Redemption: The Stanley Tookie Williams Story. Author: Donatienne Ruby, Christabel Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2011/08/25 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.28 inches |
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Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism $5.99 Gain an intimate understanding of one of the key figures in American history in this detailed biography of Thomas Jefferson. It is virtually impossible to overstate the influence that Jefferson exerted during and after the formation of the United States, ranging from his stint as president to his formation of the American system of higher education and beyond. Author Gilbert Chinard offers an exhaustively researched account of Jefferson's life and work that will please fans of... |
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Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello $24.52 Thomas Jefferson was one of the most remarkable men ever to have crossed America's political stage. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello reveals more than 150 of the objects Jefferson acquired, reflecting not only Jefferson the statesman but also Jefferson the architect, amateur scientist, connoisseur, and historian. The articles range from invaluable historical treasures such as the lap desk on which the Declaration of Independence was composed and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of Jefferson to the Mandan buffalo robe that was part of his collection of Native American artifacts and the silk damask-upholstered chairs he purchased in Paris. In all, it is a collection that mirrors both the mind of America's greatest statesman and the tastes and styles of a time in history when the American people secured their own independence and offered the world an example of a free people in a democratic state. |
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Thomas Jefferson (Spanish Version) $8.99 Thomas Jefferson was a great American. He served his country in many ways. He helped America win freedom from Great Britain. He wrote laws that gave people more rights. Discover more in this book about the life of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. 32 pages |
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Jefferson: Political Writings $33 The author of the American Declaration of Independence, Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political thinkers. This volume offers a new Introduction and a careful selection of his key writings, arranged thematically to cover such topics as race, women and slavery. |
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Jefferson Davis $117.9 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. A West Point graduate, Davis fought in the MexicanAmerican War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in the Pierce Administration, he served as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi. As a senator he argued against secession but believed each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Publication Date: 2009/12/02 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.38 inches |