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National Book Foundation > Author > Dumas Malone
Malone received a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his biographies of Thomas Jefferson and in 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. More about this author >
The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President George Washington's first cabinet; the crucial period of his first differences with Alexander Hamilton and the beginnings of his long struggle with the Federalists. More about this book >