num_pages: 484
description: 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 rich, fruitful legislative career; his highly controversial governorship; and his early services to the development of the West.
language: English
title: Jefferson the Virginian
titlecomplete: Jefferson the Virginian
genres: Biography, American, Politics, American Revolution, Presidents, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Us Presidents, History
ratings_count: 1237
series: Jefferson and His Time
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History
publisher: Little, Brown and Company