This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone's Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. Based on vast sources, it covers Jefferson's 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 highly controversial governorship; and his early services to the development of the West.

REVIEWS:

"Jefferson and His Time is a masterly achievement of scholarship, the finest biography of Jefferson we have or are likely to have, and a monumental triumph of the senior American historian."—New York Times Book Review

“‘Perfect’ best describes Anna Fields’ reading of a very detailed account of Thomas Jefferson’s first 41 years.” —Booklist

"This is going to be the Jefferson...it will endure as one of the imperishable monuments of biography-and take note that I don't say 'American biography,' I say biography period."—Gerald W. Johnson

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.