This is the first volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work by a distinguished historian on the life and times of one of the greatest of Americans. Based on vast sources, it covers Jefferson's ancestry, youth, education, legal career, marriage, the building of Monticello, the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Notes on Virginia, his richly fruitful legislative career, his highly controversial governorship, and his early services to the development of the West.
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