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  Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

  by Joseph Wheelan

  Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America’s war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that supported it. Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, the ostensibly pacifist President Thomas Jefferson launched America’s first war on foreign soil. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant... (more)