Joseph Ellis
Joseph John Ellis (born 18 July 1943 in Washington, D.C.) is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. His books American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Both those books were bestsellers with hundreds of thousands of copies.
Read more about Joseph Ellis: Background and Teaching, Presidential Biographies, Controversy Over War Service, Awards
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