Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph John Ellisis an American historian and professor whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both these books were bestsellers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
mistake made life-mistakes
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
mean america argument
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.
genius idiot constitution
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots