Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph John-Michael Ellis III is an acclaimed American historian specializing in the Founding Fathers era.
His distinguished career includes winning the National Book Award for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997) and the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2001), both bestsellers.
Now 82, Ellis has published extensively on the revolutionary period, earning recognition as one of the foremost contemporary scholars of this era.
Reviewers consistently praise his engaging, accessible writing style and his ability to humanize historical figures by stripping away mythology while maintaining historical accuracy and nuance in his interpretations.
