Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph J. Ellis is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke and author of the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, and The Passionate Sage (Norton).
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Joseph J. Ellis is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke and author of the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, and The Passionate Sage (Norton).
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Few names conjure up a vision of American history like that of George Washington. His personage is so well known that his personal history has beef fraught with myth and folklore. Who hasn't heard the story of a young George and the cherry tree? In [b]His Excellency[/b] biographer and historian Jose...
Before Bill and Hillary took to the White House, or Al and Tipper inspired Love Story, in a pre-Brangelina world (if one can imagine it), there was another power couple, John and Abigail Adams. This is a portrait painted primarily through the letters between John and Abigail, with careful attention...
A very detailed read. This book drills down in a period of time. where a number of other books skimmed over. This was definitely a slower read for me. At first, I wasn't impressed with it because it seemed to be skimming, but then about 50 pages in the author started to focus on the title of the boo...
You know, it never hurts to brush up on history. I had begun to worry that I didn't understand the American Revolution and was mixing facts, making stuff up.No, it turns out, I'm good. I know the basics: the flow of events, the major players, even some of the cities involved. I'm not as knowledgeabl...
As the blurb and other reviews tells you this book covers six months in 1776. Six months when so much had happened. The story of American independence and fight for it may be known to you in details or not at all, I had no idea how dangerously close we came to losing the fight and how much the fact ...
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