| |
| | Dumas Malone: Jefferson Biographer |
 | | It includes 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. |
 | | With the exception of a brief period of tranquility at Monticello, Jefferson found this a difficult and turbulent time. |
 | | Jefferson left the presidency a troubled and discouraged man. However, he vacated the President's House without regret and was thankful and joyous to return to his beloved Monticello. |
| www.monticello-assoc.org /articles/malone.html (938 words) |
|