The Sage of Monticello (Jefferson & His Time (University of Virginia Press))
[W]ith splendid insight and artistry, Professor Dumas Malone has reconstructed the world through which Jefferson passed, and preserved and presented to us a complex and engaging Jefferson, in a masterpiece of humanistic scholarship.(National Endowment for the Humanities, The Chairman’s Citation, presented to Dumas Malone April 30, 1979)