Ebook {Epub PDF} American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

 · JOSEPH J. ELLIS is the author of many works of American history including Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which won the National Book Award. He recently retired from his position as the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who /5(26).  · “American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson” by Joseph J. Ellis was published in and won the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Ellis is a well-known author and history professor focusing on the revolutionary era/5.

American Sphinx, The Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph J. Ellis, Alfred A. Knopf, Joseph Ellis's book about Thomas Jefferson tells us many interesting things about Jefferson, and it does perhaps shed some light on the character of Jefferson, as advertised, but it tells us much more about the state of American politics now, as reflected in Ellis's own statements and attitudes about. The biographies of Jefferson already are legion. But Joseph J. Ellis's ''American Sphinx'' is a brief and elegant return to Monticello. Mr. Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, is a remarkably clear writer, mercifully free of both the groveling and the spirit of attack that have dominated the subject in the past. An Impenetrable Man: AMERICAN SPHINX: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. By Joseph J. Ellis. Alfred A. Knopf: pp., $

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