Saturday 10 November 2012

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history. The author of seven 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. His in-depth chronicle of the life of our first President, His Excellency: George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with a novelist's emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success; his biography of Jefferson and work on the Founding Fathers have been bestsellers, attaining sales of hundreds of thousands of copies.

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

Joseph J Ellis

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