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Joseph J. Ellis is the author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and individual biographies of several of the Founders -- with the notable EXCEPTION (to date) of ...
a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. John Adams
d. Alexander Hamilton
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Joseph J. Ellis

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January 01, 1943

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The United States

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History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Joseph J. Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, is a nationally recognized scholar of American history from colonial times through the early decades of the Republic. The author of seven books, he is recipient of the National Book Award in Nonfiction for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson and the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers. He lives in Massachusetts.

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avg rating: 3.87 | 5,486 ratings | 957 reviews | 17 distinct works | 14 fans

	Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 3.89 — 2,514 ratings — published 2000 13 editions	my rating:
	His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 3.85 — 1,402 ratings — published 2004 12 editions	my rating:
	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 3.79 — 711 ratings — published 1997 6 editions	my rating:
	American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 3.87 — 394 ratings — published 2007 8 editions	my rating:
	Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 4.08 — 74 ratings — published 1993 3 editions	my rating:
	After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 3.60 — 25 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	Patriots: Brotherhood of the American Revolution by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 2004 2 editions	my rating:
	What Did the Declaration Declare? by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 3.00 — 7 ratings — published 1999 3 editions	my rating:
	We Don't Need Drugs to Be Ok, with Gillie the Knowbot and Sis and Chris by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1998	my rating:
	One Clever Creature by Joseph J. Ellis avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005	my rating:

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"All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees."
— Joseph J. Ellis (Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation)

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"James Jackson actually made menacing faces at the Quakers in the gallery, calling them outright lunatics, then launched into a tirade so emotional and incoherent that reporters in the audience had difficulty recording his words."
— Joseph J. Ellis (Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation)

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"One of the petitioners, an infamous do-gooder of uncertain sanity named Warner Mifflin, had actually acknowledged that his antislavery vision came to him after he was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm."
— Joseph J. Ellis (Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation)

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