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Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts.

Selected bibliography

  • His Excellency George Washington (2005)
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000)
  • What Did the Declaration Declare? (1999)
  • American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997)
  • Passionate Sage: The Character and Legend of John Adams (1993)
  • After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture (1982)
  • School for Soldiers: West Point and the Profession of Arms (1975)
  • The New England Mind in Transition: Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, 1696-1772 (1973)

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