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Joseph J. Ellis is a best-selling author and distinguished chronicler of early American history. His book The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won the National Book Award in 1997. Ellis's illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, received the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2001. His Excellency: George Washington is a revelatory new biography of the first American president.
Ellis Wachs Endowed Lecture.