Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History Free Audiobook Download by Don Yaeger,Brian Kilmeade

Don Yaeger's new book, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, is a real page-turner. You'll want to read it in one sitting.

In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States, the Barbary pirates were attacking American ships and American ports in a war that would last for more than 60 years. It was a conflict that changed America - and its political system - profoundly.

As a young diplomat, Thomas Jefferson was sent to the Barbary Coast in Tripoli, where he met pirates who captured American ships. He secured their release and returned home with priceless treasures.

The Battle of Tripoli sounds like a movie, and by all accounts it should have been one, but it wasn't. That's because the story of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates is not well-known in the United States. One reason for this is that America won the battle. But it lost the war by not recognizing that these pirates were fighting for freedom and liberty.

It was the pirates of Tripoli who leveled America's moral standing in Europe and forced Thomas Jefferson to take charge of the country, as he struggled to find a way to protect American sailors from the Barbary pirates. This forgotten war is not just important because it changed history but because it changed us.

Thomas Jefferson was a man who would do anything to protect American interests. John Adams once said of him, "I love him because he has the courage of his opinions" and during the course of his presidency he had an incident with the Tripoli Pirates. At the time they were known as Barbary Pirates and they were terrorizing Americans in 1801 on their ships. Jefferson invoked Article 11 of the Constitution which allowed him to stop paying tribute to them and declared war on them.