Sage of Monticello (1981). Malone also published a set of lectures, Thomas Jefferson as Political Leader, (1963) with the University of California Press. His eyesight deteriorated markedly as he became older, making it necessary to use various technologies such as voice recorders and a Visualtek to enlarge texts while writing his last two Jefferson books. Legacy and honors 1983 – President Ronald Reagan awarded Malone the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Malone died on December 27, 1986, at Charlottesville, Virginia. He is buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium in Charlottesville. References Further reading Robert M. S. McDonald, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History (University of Virginia Press, 2019) pp. 219–243 online External links 20th-century American biographers 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians of the United States Pulitzer Prize for History winners Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Emory University alumni Yale Divinity School alumni United States Marine Corps officers United States Marine Corps personnel of World War I Historians from Mississippi People from Coldwater, Mississippi 1892 births 1986 deaths Burials at the University of Virginia Cemetery 20th-century American male writers