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Synopsis
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. This is going to be the Jefferson...it will endure as one of the imperishable monuments of biographyand take note that I don t say American biography, I say biography period.Gerald W. Johnson