num_pages: 551
description: The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of Dumas Malone's epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties of Jefferson's last seventeen yearsincluding his retirement from the presidency, his personal tribulations, and his major role in the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia. This is a fitting final chapter in the life of one of America's greatest men.
language: English
title: The Sage of Monticello (Volume 6)
titlecomplete: The Sage of Monticello (Volume 6) (Jefferson And His Time, 6)
genres: American Revolution, History, American Revolutionary War, Presidents, American History, Biography, Us Presidents, American, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 338
series: Jefferson and His Time
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardback) & (Paperback) (1983)
publisher: University of Virginia Press