When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt, with its economy and dignity under attack. Pirates from North Africa’s Barbary Coa
Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
“An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR T
At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists
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
