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Joseph Ellis is an American historian known for studies of the United States founding era and early republic. His books include biographies and interpretive works on figures such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. He received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, a book about relationships among leading figures of the early United States.
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Which book won Joseph Ellis the Pulitzer Prize?
Joseph Ellis won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. The book examines interconnected episodes involving figures such as John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
What period does Joseph Ellis usually write about?
Ellis mainly writes about the American founding era and early republic, especially the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His biographies include studies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
What is American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis about?
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson is an interpretive biography of Jefferson. Ellis examines the tension between Jefferson's political ideals, public achievements, and personal contradictions.
Is Joseph Ellis a biographer or a political historian?
He is both, because his biographies use individual lives to explain larger political conflicts in the United States. Founding Brothers, for example, uses events such as the Hamilton-Burr duel to explore the politics of the 1790s.
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