Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Most Interesting Audiobook story. It is certainly on a forgotten aspect of Jefferson's Administration. Jefferson had a habit of biting off much more than he could stomach. Liberal politicians and moderate Republicans, I dare say- all politicians tend to do this at times, especially when real leadership is needed. The best historians since the Greeks bear the scars for all to see. Such is real history. More should hear this story. There is much more of it to understand of this event. I blame the editor for that aspect, the writer did his best I believe. Jefferson is seen as he really was. No B.S. History Channel use of weak historians. Yale and Harvard use to turn out deeper thinkers in my day. Here, in this story, the reader is slammed into history in a vivid way. I really think the author does a exceptional job. The more I dig into Jefferson, the worse I uncover as to his weakness in foreign policy. My Yale Professor and my Oxford Professors tend to agree that Jefferson tended to look for the easiest answers to difficult situations IRT Foreign Diplomacy. IMHO this shows his weakness in leadership. Because as a politician, and a Francophile at heart, he always looks for a proper defense in times of war or chaos. Jefferson was not as bright a light as last two hundred years of writers and historians have shown, a founding father, yes, however, he was very afraid of a standing army and navy due to in his thoughts a need for recruitment for said forces was always drawn on the 2.5 of the faithfullest Americans. He himself promoted and sustained the traitor Major General Wilkinson, and distained many of the brave gentlemen warriors from the North eastern states due to his distaste of the Lawyer A. Burr. BG Eaton and 1st Lt Wesley O'bannon were unique characters in their own right, as were those loyal US sailors of the USS Philadelphia. Their ship's Captain should have been broken to the ranks for his repeated failures. The story in it's original insightful way, was actually drawn upon by Major Laurance a century later, when he asked a visiting American Historian at Christ College,"... to speak about that cheeky fellow, BG William Eaton and his rag tag band of dirty Shirts and a handfull of those Marines- that crossed a desert to attack a Mad Mula Shiek enslaving that region, and free the Americans held in slavery." One day I will tell the rest of that story.... OWAA Outdoor Writer Walter (Joe Guide) Dinkins Wilmington, N.C.

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Excellent read