description: Dumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life. Volume 3. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty Beginning with Jefferson’s final year of service as secretary of state in Washington’s cabinet, this volume takes on one of the most significant and controversial years in Jefferson’s life and indeed in modern Western history, while also exploring Jefferson’s retirement to Monticello, his decision to lead the opposition party, and his own election as president in 1801.
language: English
title: Jefferson And The Ordeal Of Liberty
titlecomplete: Jefferson And The Ordeal Of Liberty (Jefferson & His Time)
genres: Political Science, American Revolutionary War, Politics, Us Presidents, Biography, American History, Nonfiction, History, Presidents, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 331
series: Jefferson and His Time
publisher: University Of Virginia Press