Uriah Phillips Levy

Author : Harold W. Felton
Publisher : Dodd Mead
ISBN 13 : 9780396076049
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah Phillips Levy written by Harold W. Felton and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Jewish American who fought anti-semitism within the United States Navy and was instrumental in preserving Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello.

Author : Mel Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah written by Mel Young and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited transcript of over 900 pages of testimony, charges, interrogatories, examinations and cross-examinations of the witnesses for and against Navy Captain Uriah Phillips Levy at the Naval Court of Inquiry in 1857 shows the magnitude of the anti-Semitic attitude amongst certain naval officers during that period of history.

Author : Samuel Sobel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love Thy House ... A Keepsake of the Commodore Levy Chapel, Norfolk. (Published in Observance of the Centennial of the Death of Uriah Phillips Levy.) [With a Short Biographical Note on Uriah Levy. With Illustrations, Including Portraits.]. written by Samuel Sobel and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phyllis Appel
Publisher : Graystone Enterprises LLC
ISBN 13 : 1310982511
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah Levy written by Phyllis Appel and published by Graystone Enterprises LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uriah Phillips Levy declared himself “an American, a sailor, and a Jew." On his way to achieving the Navy's highest rank of Commodore, Levy faced pirates, a mutinous crew, and six courts-martial, which led to three dismissals from service. He helped abolish flogging as a means of punishment and saved Monticello (President Jefferson’s estate) from destruction.

Author : Herman F. Krafft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah Phillips Levy written by Herman F. Krafft and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Leepson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074322602X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Monticello written by Marc Leepson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark. When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final goodbye to Monticello itself. The house their illustrious patriarch had lovingly designed in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, his beloved "essay in architecture," was sold to the highest bidder. So how did it become the national landmark it is today? Saving Monticello offers the first complete post-Jefferson history of this American icon and reveals the amazing story of how one Jewish family saved the house that became their family home. With a dramatic narrative sweep across generations, Marc Leepson vividly recounts the turbulent saga of this fabled estate. Monticello's first savior was the mercurial U.S. Navy Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, a sailor celebrated for his successful campaign to ban flogging in the Navy and excoriated for his stubborn willfulness. In 1833, Levy discovered that Jefferson's mansion had fallen into a miserable state of decay. Acquiring the ruined estate and committing his considerable resources to its renewal, he began what became a tumultuous nine-decade relationship between his family and Jefferson's home. After passing from Levy control at the time of the commodore's death, Monticello fell once more into hard times. Again, a member of the Levy family came to the rescue. Uriah's nephew, a three-term New York congressman and wealthy real estate and stock speculator, gained possession in 1879. After Jefferson Levy poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into its repair and upkeep, his chief reward was to face a vicious national campaign, with anti-Semitic overtones, to expropriate the house and turn it over to the government. Only after the campaign had failed, with Levy declaring that he would sell Monticello only when the White House itself was offered for sale, did Levy relinquish it to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 1923. Pulling back the veil of history to reveal a story we thought we knew, Saving Monticello establishes this most American of houses as more truly reflective of the American experience than has ever been fully appreciated.

Author : Sanford V. Sternlicht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.W6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah Phillips Levy written by Sanford V. Sternlicht and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara M. Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah Phillips Levy written by Barbara M. Golden and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sanford V. Sternlicht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uriah Phillips Levy, the Blue Star Commodore written by Sanford V. Sternlicht and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donovan Fitzpatrick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navy Maverick written by Donovan Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undertitlen er: Den tumultariske historie om Amerikas første højtstående jødiske søofficer. En ældre udgivelse fra 1962 erhvervet til vor omfattende personalhistoriske samling. Forfatteren levede fra 1792 til 1862 og havde en højst usædvanlig karriere på grund af sin race. Han blev krigsfange i England men kom efter napoleonskrigene atter tilbage i tjeneste, hvor han 6 gange kom for en krigsret og til slut blev genansat efter en retssag. Han endte sin sejlende tjeneste, som flotilleadmiral i den amerikanske middelhavseskadre, den højeste rang man dengang kunne opnå i Flåden.