The wars against the Barbary pirates not only signaled the determination of the United States to throw off its tributary status, liberate its citizens from slav

Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.

The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the

Wheelan captures the story of America's first war against terror and the nations that supported it. With telling illustrations, "Jefferson's War" traces the eve

The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers