The magisterial “collaboration” over half a lifetime between historian Dumas Malone and his subject, Thomas Jefferson, is the basis for William G. Hyland Jr.’s compelling volume Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson. Malone, the courtly and genteel historian from Mississippi, spent thirty-eight years researching and writing the definitive biography of the man who “invented the United States of America.” Meticulously researched, Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson is a comprehensive, fascinating biography that will be welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.