Jefferson and His Time

Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of US President Thomas Jefferson by American historian Dumas Malone, published between 1948 and 1981.

Jefferson and His Time
AuthorDumas Malone
CountryUS
Genrehistory
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
Publication date
194881
Pages3300
AwardsPulitzer Prize for History

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

  1. "Dumas Malone, Jefferson biographer=". Chicago Sun-Times.   via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . December 28, 1986. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
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