"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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Dumas Malone January 10, 1892 to December 27, 1986 Born in Coldwater, Mississippi & Died in Charlottesville, Virginia Pulitzer prize winning historian and author who wrote the standard biography of Thomas Jefferson.
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Bibliography Jefferson the Virginian - 1948 Jefferson and the Rights of Man - 1951 Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty - 1962 Jefferson the President: First Term (1801 - 1905) - 1970 Jefferson the President: Second Term (1805 - 1809) - 1974 The Sage of Monticello - 1981 Thomas Jefferson: A Brief Biography - 1986
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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