Joseph J. Ellis

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First Family: Abigail and John Adams

Joseph J. Ellis

The prizewinning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the Republic's tenuo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of Am...

Joseph J. Ellis

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. W...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2013

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second...

Joseph J. Ellis

From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselve...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2015

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary ...

Joseph J. Ellis

In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2001

His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2004

Passionate Sage: The Character and Le...

Joseph J. Ellis

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers. 'The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew h...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2001

After the Revolution: Profiles of Ear...

Joseph J. Ellis

Through portraits of four figures—Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster—Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expe...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2002

American Sphinx: The Character of Tho...

Joseph J. Ellis

For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for reti...

Paperback
Published: Apr 1998

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of Am...

Joseph J. Ellis

A Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agr...

Paperback
Published: May 2014

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary ...

Joseph J. Ellis

In lesser hands the fractious disputes and hysterical rhetoric of these contentious nation-builders might come across as hyperbolic pettiness. Ellis knows better, and he unpacks the real issues for his readers, revealing the driving a...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2000
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