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Being Definitive: Jefferson Biography Under The Shadow of Dumas Malone

The term "definitive" is often used loosely, but by looking at the way in which Dumas Malone's six-volume biography, Jefferson and His Time, displaced earlier biographies of Jefferson we can better understand what this label might signify. Furthermore, by examining the relationship between Malone's work and subsequent biographies of Jefferson we can gauge the power of a definitive biography to shape, limit, or encourage later life studies of the subject.