Jefferson the Virginian: Jefferson and His Time, Volume 1

by Dumas Malone

Overview

The first of five volumes in a full-length biography of Jefferson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316544740
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	01/30/1948
Series:	Jefferson and His Time Series , #1
Pages:	484
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.31(d)
Age Range:	13 Years

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.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	The Heritage of a Virginian
I	Jeffersons and Randolphs, 1679-1745	3
II	The Services of Peter Jefferson, 1746-1757	21
	The Road to Enlightenment
III	Schooldays in Albemarle, 1757-1760	37
IV	At the College, 1760-1762	49
V	Williamsburg: Introduction to the Law, 1762-1765	62
VI	The School of Manners, 1762-1765	75
VII	Listening at the Capitol, 1765-1766	88
VIII	Disciple of Enlightenment	98
	The Business of Life
IX	The Young Lawyer, 1767-1771	113
X	Among the Burgesses, 1769-1771	128
XI	Beginning at Monticello, 1769-1772	143
XII	Attaining Domestic Felicity, 1772-1774	153
	Revolting Against an Empire
XIII	The Growth of a Political Mind	169
XIV	Championing Colonial Rights, 1774-1775	180
XV	A Patriot Goes to Philadelphia, 1775	197
XVI	Herald of Freedom, 1776	215
	Liberalizing a Commonwealth
XVII	Framing a Government, 1776	235
XVIII	The Way of a Legislator: Freeing the Land, 1776-1779	247
XIX	Architect of Laws: Slavery and Crime	261
XX	Church and School	274
XXI	The Amenities of War, 1777-1779	286
	The Ordeal of a War Governor
XXII	The Limitations of Executive Power	301
XXIII	The Frustrations of a War Governor, 1779-1780	314
XXIV	The Menace of Invasion, 1780-1781	330
XXV	Exit His Excellency	352
	Starting Again
XXVI	A Philosopher Surveys His Country	373
XXVII	Tragedy and a False Start, 1782-1783	390
XXVIII	An End and a Beginning, 1783-1784	403
	Appendices
I	Genealogy	426
II	The Jefferson Estate	435
III	The Walker Affair, 1768-1809	447
	Acknowledgments	452
	List of Symbols and Short Titles Most Frequently Used in Footnotes	455
	Select Critical Bibliography	457
	Index	471

Editorial Reviews

Prodigiously researched and felicitously written, Dumas Malone’s multi-volume Jefferson and His Time is one of the great biographies of the 20th century.

From the Publisher

Malone is the giant on whose shoulders every subsequent scholar of Jefferson stands, and his work remains seminal in shaping our understanding of who Jefferson was. Both from a purely scholarly standpoint and outside the groves of academe, Malone’s biography of Jefferson is simply a great read. There is a whole new generation of Jefferson lovers who will want to own this set.

Joseph J. Ellis

Prodigiously researched and felicitously written, Dumas Malone’s multi-volume Jefferson and His Time is one of the great biographies of the 20th century.

New Republic