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Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello

Dumas Malone

Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of US President Thomas Jefferson by American historian Dumas Malone, published between 1948 and 1981. His work on the series gave Malone a reputation as "the world's leading Jefferson scholar". For the fifth volume, he was awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryAward Category: National Book Award for Autobiography and Biography Hardcover -> BiographyPresidential Biography

Award History

0 wins · 4 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for Autobiography and Biography PaperbackMajor1983FinalistSecondary source
National Book Award for Autobiography and Biography HardcoverMajor1982FinalistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor1981FinalistSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor1975FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Thomas Jefferson92%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.