Mr. Jefferson and the Living Generation. The National Endowment for the Humanities Occasional Paper 2

Washington, DC: Nat Endowment/Humanities, 1972. Quarto, 12 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Covers somewhat worn and stained. Dumas Malone (January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Malone served on the faculty of Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia, where he was the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History. He was a Director of the Harvard University Press and served as editor of the original Dictionary of American Biography in 1929. His first contribution to historical scholarship was a still authoritative biography of the American political commentator and educator Thomas Cooper (Yale University Press, 1926). He is best known for his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, published between 1948 and 1981. The National Endowment for the Humanities gave a dinner honoring Dr. Lionel Trilling the evening before Dr. Trilling delivered the first Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on April 26, 1972. Dr. Dumas Malone, the eminent Jefferson biographer, was the principal speaker of the evening. This occasional paper contains the full text of Dr. Malone's address, as well as short speeches by Wallace B. Edgerton, Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by Ronald S. Berman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Malone makes Jefferson's relevance clear to the generation that had lived through the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and other turbulent times. Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who traced the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature. Very scarce. Condition: fair to good.

Keywords: Thomas Jefferson, Lionel Trilling, Humanities, Scholarship, U.S. Presidents, Monticello, Reason, Morality, Human Values

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