Thomas Jefferson and His Times, Vol. 4
The President, First Term, 18011805

The Jefferson Administration, over the course of its first term, is the subject of this, the fourth volume of Dumas Malone’s epic six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson. With his customary thoroughness, Malone examines the first four years of Jefferson’s time as Third President of the United State......more

[URL not allowed] “Jefferson the President: First Term” is the fourth volume in Dumas Malone’s monumental biographical work on Thomas Jefferson. This volume was published in 1970 and was followed four years later by volume five, after which Malone received a Pulitzer Prize for......more

Good gracious, this volume covering Jefferson's first term goes at a million miles an hour. It only covers four years, but they were surely event-filled. The same period in single-volume biographies usually covers only a chapter or two. But there's a lot. However, at the same time, I somehow don't k......more

This biographical saga of the third president's life and times just keeps getting better and better. The level of analysis in the nearly 500 of this masterpiece seems to be par for the course for historian Dumas Malone; the several decades it took him to compose these six books appear to be time wel......more