Jefferson and His Time
Author | Dumas Malone |
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Country | US |
Genre | history |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Publication date | 1948–81 |
Pages | 3300 |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History |
Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of US President Thomas Jefferson by American historian Dumas Malone, published between 1948 and 1981.
The six volumes were published individually as follows:
- Jefferson the Virginian (1948)
- Jefferson and the Rights of Man (1951)
- Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (1962)
- Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 (1970)
- Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809 (1974)
- The Sage of Monticello (1981)
His work on the series gave Malone a reputation as "the world's leading Jefferson scholar". For the fifth volume, he was awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History.[1]
References
- ↑ "Dumas Malone, Jefferson biographer=". Chicago Sun-Times. – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . December 28, 1986. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
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