Jefferson the Virginian (Jefferson & His Time (University of Virginia Press))
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, National Book Award–winning author ofAmerican Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson)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)