Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 1, Dumas Malone
Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 1, Dumas Malone
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Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 1
Jefferson the Virginian

Author: Dumas Malone

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 16 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2009

Synopsis

This is the first of six Pulitzer Prizewinning volumes on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson written by distinguished historian Dumas Malone. It is based on vast sources, which cover Jeffersons ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the building of Monticello; the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the Notes on Virginia; his rich, fruitful legislative career; his highly controversial governorship; and his early services to the development of the West.

About Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone (1892–1986) taught history at American universities such as Yale and Columbia and served for seven years as director of the Harvard University Press before becoming the biographer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. His work as historian and biographer has earned him several honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the John F. Kennedy Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

Jefferson would have liked this biography, I think. Dumas Malone, who spent much of his career at the University of Virginia, composed his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson very much in the spirit of one Virginia gentleman paying homage to another. All six volumes of Jefferson and His Time (t......more

Goodreads review by Sara

This is the first of six volumes about the life of Thomas Jefferson. I love to read real history like this that was written decades before it all got put through the lens of political correctness and the continuing apology tour that so many so-called historians pass off as history in the 21st centur......more

Goodreads review by Larry

Published in 1948 this book is almost as old as I am. But presumably that should be not a problem in looking at history of the 18th century. Or should it? Jefferson history has only been recently clarified regarding his relationship with slave Sally Hemmings. although the author mentions this slave......more

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