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OverviewDumas Malone's classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson's life. Volume 6. The Sage of Monticello This final volume provides an all-encompassing account of Jefferson's accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties in his last seventeen years, revealing his shift from the realm of politics to his roles as family man, architect, and educational enthusiast. Describing Jefferson's retirement from Washington, this volume recounts the events that formed Jefferson's final years, particularly the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia, in which he played a major role. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dumas MalonePublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Volume: 06 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.875kg ISBN: 9780813923666ISBN 10: 0813923662 Pages: 551 Publication Date: 30 October 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[W]ith splendid insight and artistry, Professor Dumas Malone has reconstructed the world through which Jefferson passed, and preserved and presented to us a complex and engaging Jefferson, in a masterpiece of humanistic scholarship.--National Endowment for the Humanities, The Chairman's Citation, presented to Dumas Malone April 30, 1979 <p>[W]ith splendid insight and artistry, Professor Dumas Malone hasreconstructed the world through which Jefferson passed, and preserved and presentedto us a complex and engaging Jefferson, in a masterpiece of humanisticscholarship.--National Endowment for the Humanities, The Chairman's Citation, presented to DumasMalone April 30, 1979 Author InformationDumas 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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