Jefferson And His Time

by Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone’s classic biography Jefferson and His Time -- originally published in six volumes over a period of thirty-four years, between 1948 and 1982 -- was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life. The University of Virginia Press is pleased to announce that the complete, illustrated six-volume biography is available for the first time in a handsome boxed set. Merrill Peterson, editor of the Library of America edition of Thomas Jefferson’s writings, has contributed a new foreword to the Virginia edition.

Genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction, Presidents, Biography Memoir, American History

3300 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Dumas Malone, 1892–1986, spent thirty-eight years researching and writing Jefferson and His Time. In 1975 he received the Pulitzer Prize in history for the first five volumes. From 1923 to 1929 he taught at the University of Virginia; he left there to join the Dictionary of American Biography, bringing that work to completion as editor-in-chief. Subsequently, he served for seven years as director of the Harvard University Press. After serving on the faculties of Yale and Columbia, Malone retired to the University of Virginia in 1959 as the Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, a position he held until his retirement in 1962. He remained at the university as biographer-in-residence and finished his Jefferson biography at the University of Virginia, where it was begun.

Reviews

[Matt Frain · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a journey, from start to finish Dumas Malone was able to weave through each stage of Jefferson's life with care and detail. It was such a great experience learning about such a complex figure. While the books are written well my only complaint is that sometimes the authors bias for Jefferson shines through.