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Joseph John-Michael Ellis III (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award in 1997 [1] and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for ...
Joseph Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, lied about his Vietnam and civil rights involvement in 2001. He later wrote a biography of George Washington, focusing on his character and flaws, which received positive reviews.
Bio. Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history. The author of eleven books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation and won the National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
Books. A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning and the National Book Award winning . "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that ...
Home. E. New York Times bestseller Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence. Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation. National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson. New York Times bestseller His Excellency: George Washington. “The colonists didn’t describe their war for ...
Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke since 1972, is one of the nation's foremost scholars of American history. Ellis's commentaries have been featured on CSPAN, CNN, and PBS's Lehrer News Hour.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a 2000 book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. It explores selected interactions among a group of individuals both gifted and flawed; interactions that profoundly influenced the early development of the United ...
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