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	Booknotes
		JOSEPH ELLIS: Because he was a very wise man and also a very fiery, emotional, vituperative, sometimes angry, sometimes obscene fellow, and it's the title because I thought it captured in a way that might be memorable the kind of paradoxical character of this otherwise thought of as icon, very human but also extraordinarily wise.
		ELLIS: The specific answer is that I had been given a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to do a book on late 18th-century America, which was going to be a study of a prominent person, an ordinary person in a community, that was going to study the changes sweeping through late 18th-century America.
		ELLIS: That's a story that on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration, or the supposed anniversary, July 4, 1826, both Jefferson and Adams were nearing death, and they were two of the last three of the original signers of the Declaration to still be alive and certainly the most prominent.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/?ProgramID=1165 (6752 words)

	Joseph Ellis on the Paula Gordon Show
		While Dr. Ellis is beguiled by the greatest collection of political talent in American history, he is also fascinated that the institutions and values on which America rests were created in a chaotic, improvised fashion, less like a symphony orchestra than like the improvisation of jazz musicians (see Cornel West).
		Ellis describes the roots of Washington as a nationalist and explains Washington's debt to the Continental Army soldiers -- indentured servants, former slaves and recent immigrants from Ireland and Scotland.
		Ellis considers Washington's perspective on Virginia as the southern outpost of a Northern economy, not the northern outpost of a Southern economy.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/ellis/index.html (1318 words)

	Joseph Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ellis became the subject of controversy in 1996 with the publication of his book, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, in which he suggests that evidence for an affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is "inconclusive"
		Ellis next took students on a field trip to Monticello to survey the response to the results of the DNA tests.
		Ellis later became the subject of controversy when the Boston Globe revealed in an article published on June 18, 2001 that he had exaggerated his involvement in the Vietnam War (he served in uniform in America but did not go to Vietnam as he had claimed to students and to the media).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Ellis (1066 words)

	Jeffersonian Politics: Joseph Ellis
		Ellis was coauthor of the 1998 story "Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child" in which he, making full use of his prestige as a Jefferson biographer, affirmed that Jefferson indeed was the father of a child by his slave Sally Hemings.
		Ellis noted in the revised version that in his original edition he felt "the likelihood of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was remote, offering several plausible readings of the indirect evidence (i.e., Jefferson's voice in his letters to women; the reasons his enemies doubted the charges) to support my conjecture.
		Ellis wrote that "...the Eston match is the crucial new evidence and really all that matters..." and decided since Jefferson was 64 years old when Eston was conceived, it was unlikely this was a one-night stand.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/7842/jeffersonians/jpfor001.htm (3089 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Dialogue with Joseph Ellis--August 11, 1997
		JOSEPH ELLIS: One thing that’s at the core is a--and I think that this is something that is becoming a more potent force in American politics of the last decade or so--is a fundamental aversion to federal power or aggregated, or what he would say consolidated political power of any sort.
		JOSEPH ELLIS: In that way--if one said why is he coming back, I would say it’s because he speaks to that part of our political life that has come into existence since 1989.
		JOSEPH ELLIS: Primarily because over the last twenty to twenty-five years, race has become one of the major windows through which people looking back at American history are trying to see things.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/august97/ellis_8-11.html (1064 words)

	The Chronicle: July 13, 2001: In Wake of the Scandal Over Joseph Ellis, Scholars Ask 'Why?' and 'What Now?'
		Ellis is a history professor, by reporting that he had for years been lying to colleagues, reporters, and students about his own role in history.
		Ellis will be held responsible for his retrofitted patriotism, though they are loath to be more specific than a promise "to arrive at a fair and judicious assessment." Ms.
		Ellis should be barred from the classroom and from "ever teaching history again." But at the same time, the law professor noted that the full story has not been told.
	chronicle.com /free/v47/i44/44a01001.htm (2864 words)

	Ellis doesn't want to revisit his own past
		Ellis is also the beneficiary of a 20-city national book tour and is basking in a host of favorable reviews for "His Excellency," most of which make no mention of his past travails.
		Ellis immediately apologized for his actions, disappeared from public view, devoted himself to a quiet private period of soul-searching that lasted six months, followed by work on his new biography of Washington.
		Ellis insists that this definitely is not the case, that one of the effects of the scandal was to turn microscopic attention on all his books and none of these examinations turned up errors or misstatements.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/202551_ellis07.html (894 words)

	Beyond Books - Guest Experts - Joseph Ellis
		Ellis is a rare breed of scholar - one who writes engagingly and with clarity.
		Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
		Joseph Ellis received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
	www.beyondbooks.com /chat/2000/ellis.asp (435 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Joseph Ellis
		Joseph Ellis, eminent historian, is widely praised for his ability to bring fresh insight to the well-known lives of the leaders of the American Revolution.
		Ellis received the National Book Award for his 1997 biography, "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson," a discerning, balanced portrait of an enigmatic president.
		Ellis gives us a succinct character study while drawing on his extensive knowledge of Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary history to strip away the accretions of myth and contemporary extemporizing that have grown up around his subject.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/ellis_joseph.html (444 words)

	Amazon.ca: American Sphinx: Books: Joseph J. Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ellis does an admirable job of conveying an honest and balanced view of the chief author of the Declaration of Independence, without resorting to hero-worship, as do most biographers.
		Ellis' writing is brisk, loaded with telling anecdotes, and never attempts to impress the reader with the research he has done.
		Ellis also does not harp on the rumor and gossip surrounding the Sally Hemming subject, which is refreshing.
	www.amazon.ca /American-Sphinx-Joseph-J-Ellis/dp/0786114754 (1554 words)

	Amazon.fr : Founding Brothers: Livres en anglais: Joseph J. Ellis,Nelson Runger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 the republic.
		Ellis focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation's capital was determined--in exchange for support of Hamilton's financial plan; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address; and the Hamilton and Burr duel.
		Throughout the text, Ellis explains the personal, face-to-face nature of early American politics--and notes that the members of the revolutionary generation were conscious of the fact that they were establishing precedents on which future generations would rely.
	www.amazon.fr /Founding-Brothers-Joseph-J-Ellis/dp/0788761331 (804 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
		Joseph Ellis illuminates the profoundly deep bonds and the often fractious, sometimes blind, efforts of the Founding Fathers–re-examined here as Founding Brothers–to realize strikingly different visions of America.
		Ellis focuses more intensively on the plight of the slaves than that of the Indians, but he does point out that Washington addressed their situation with the suggestion that they abandon their hunter-gatherer way of life and assimilate themselves into the general population as farmers [p.
		Ellis has such command of the subject matter that it feels fresh, particularly as he segues from psychological to political, even to physical analysis….
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/founding_brothers1.asp (1411 words)

	The History Lesson of Joseph Ellis
		There was something terribly sad about the revelation of Ellis' many falsehoods when the story broke in the Boston Globe last Monday — the conclusion to an extensive investigation (including an examination of Ellis' Army records) launched by a tip from an unidentified source after the Globe ran its interview with Ellis last year.
		Ellis won the Pulitzer in April for "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," and the National Book Award for his previous book, "American Sphinx," a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
		His disgraceful arrogance was matched by Mt. Holyoke president Joanne Creighton, who immediately announced her administration was standing by Ellis — a man, she said, of "great integrity, honesty and honor," even though he had admitted lying to the students in her charge.
	www.mobylives.com /Joseph_Ellis.html (806 words)

	Amazon.fr : His Excellency: George Washington: Livres en anglais: Joseph J. Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Today, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph J. Ellis says in this crackling biography, Americans see their first president on dollar bills, quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but only as "an icon--distant, cold, intimidating." In truth, Washington was a deeply emotional man, but one who prized and practiced self-control (an attribute reinforced during his years on the battlefield).
		In this follow-up to his bestselling Founding Brothers, Ellis offers a magisterial account of the life and times of George Washington, celebrating the heroic image of the president whom peers like Jefferson and Madison recognized as "their unquestioned superior" while acknowledging his all-too-human qualities.
		Ellis recreates the cultural and political context into which Washington strode to provide leadership to the incipient American republic.
	www.amazon.fr /His-Excellency-Washington-Joseph-Ellis/dp/1400040310 (1026 words)

	His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis: HistoryWiz Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ellis illuminates the difficulties the first executive confronted as he worked to keep the emerging country united in the face of adversarial factions.
		Throughout, Ellis peels back the layers of myth and uncovers for us Washington in the context of eighteenth-century America, allowing us to comprehend the magnitude of his accomplishments and the character of his spirit and mind.
		Ellis strips away the ivy and legend that have grown up over the Washington statue and recovers the flesh-and-blood man in all his passionate and fully human prowess.
	books.historywiz.org /moreinfo/hisexcellency.htm (3480 words)

	Rev. Joseph S. Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joseph's obituary said he was born in the state of New York, and his family moved to Waterbury, Connecticut, when he was an infant.
		Joseph's daughter Angelina wrote in her 1895 journal that she visited the grave of her father Rev.
		Joseph S. Ellis in Massachusetts; she wrote that he died June 19, 1842, and his epitath reads: "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace."
	crestviewcable.com /~jbuck/jellis.html (1902 words)

	Joseph Ellis Vietnam War Wannabe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ellis was also caught in other exaggerations of anti-war activism and a game-winning touchdown that never happened.
		If Joseph Ellis falsified his service record or wore decorations and insignia to which he is not entitled, he could be fined and imprisoned.
		Ellis was also one of about 400 so-called "Historians in Defense of the Constitution" pretending Constitutional expertise and signing a petition urging Americans to not support the impeachment.
	vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/history/400historians/JosephEllis/elliswannabe.htm (1538 words)

	Joseph Ellis
		Ellis apologized for the Vietnam misrepresentations and ''other distortions'' about his personal life after the Globe disclosed on Monday that he had falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, an experience he also claimed led him to join the antiwar movement.
		Ellis was in the ROTC program at The College of William and Mary, and was commissioned an Army second lieutenant when he graduated in 1965.
		Joseph J Ellis informed Mount Holyoke College, a private university in Massachusetts, that he would no longer be teaching Vietnam and American Culture.
	www.pownetwork.org /phonies/phonies58.htm (6841 words)

	TIME.com: A History Of His Own Making -- Page 1
		Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they didn't jibe with reality, and later on keeping his contradictions alive with an "internal ability to generate multiple versions of the truth."
		Last week Ellis, an icon on the South Hadley, Mass., campus of Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught for the past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal.
		And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s.
	www.time.com /time/education/article/0,8599,165156,00.html (1021 words)

	American Sphinx, The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph J. Ellis
		Ellis, indeed, is respectful enough of Jefferson, but respect is hardly what is required by his views; and he is dismissive enough of Jefferson's principles that it would not be too surprising were he to turn out dismissive of Jefferson altogether.
		Ellis evidently has not paid attention to such literature or to recent developments in economics, none of which is ever mentioned in his book.
		Ellis does not seem to even be aware that the natural rights theory of Locke, whose existence he acknowledges but which he leaves conflated with the theory of Rousseau, presents very different ideas about the purpose and origin of government.
	www.friesian.com /ellis.htm (2939 words)

	Has Scandal Taken Its Toll on Joseph Ellis?
		The Associated Press observed that "Ellis suddenly came to resemble one of his historical subjects, a man of high achievement shadowed by flaws in character." Ellis in his interview with the Associated Press said "the notion that [Washington] could not tell a lie is itself an adolescent fable.
		Fischer complained that Ellis was unduly harsh, comparing Ellis's account of Washington's military leadership with the infamous debunking books that appeared in the 1920s.
		The lack of outrage among the academic community and their apparent feeling that there is a difference between professional versus personal dishonesty, and dishonestly in publications versus teaching, has allowed Ellis to return to teaching and scholarly work.
	hnn.us /articles/8656.html (1157 words)

	The History Lesson of Joseph Ellis
		Yet all that had happened at the end of that week was that Ellis had withdrawn from teaching his Vietnam class, and the college had announced it would investigate him.
		And, on Friday, incredibly, Ellis gave a public lecture, at which he said, "I want to again repeat that I deeply regret having let stand and later confirmed any assumption that I had served in Vietnam." Then he went on with his lecture.
		Jeopardizing the institution he supposedly loves is just another part of the damage wrought by Joseph Ellis of which he seems clueless.
	www.mobylives.com /Ellis_history.html (977 words)

	The Irascible Professor-commentary of the day-8-19-01. Worrying about Professor Joseph Ellis and Myself.
		Ellis recounted on a regular basis his "Vietnam experiences" when he was teaching a course on the Vietnam War era.
		Ellis has been stripped of his endowed Chair at Mt. Holyoke, and has been suspended for a year without pay to reflect on his misdeeds.
		Despite the "war stories" that Ellis generously sprinkled throughout his lectures, the truth of the matter, it turns out, was that he had never served in Vietnam, and that the insider anecdotes he peddled were so much hogwash.
	irascibleprofessor.com /comments-8-19-01.htm (1371 words)

	BookPage Interview November 2004: Joseph J. Ellis
		Like many of us, historian Joseph Ellis long considered George Washington a distant, almost unapproachable icon, "aloof and silent, like the man in the moon." Then Ellis began research for a chapter about Washington's farewell address in Founding Brothers, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about America's revolutionary generation.
		Ellis fleshes out His Excellency by dipping judiciously into an ocean of new scholarship on the American Revolution, the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, slavery and colonial and early American history in general.
		Ellis works at home in a large upstairs office, usually surrounded by his Jack Russell terrier, a cat and a golden retriever.
	www.bookpage.com /0411bp/joseph_ellis.html (740 words)

	Powell's Books - His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J Ellis
		Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portrait of George Washington's life and career — from his military years through his two terms as president.
		When Washington died in 1799, Ellis tells us, he was eulogized as "first in the hearts of his countrymen." Since then, however, his image has been chiseled onto Mount Rushmore and printed on the dollar bill.
		Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize_winning author of Founding Brothers.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=1400032539 (1152 words)

	Readers Comment on the Joseph Ellis Scandal
		For Ellis to have claimed he served in Vietnam-- in the paratroops, at that-- would have required not dishonesty, but some sort of psychiatric disability.
		After what I admit is only a cursory look into the Ellis case of what appears to have been a distortion of his military record in classroom lecture/discussions and in media interviews, I tend to think that words such as "scandal" and "tragedy" are out of place here.
		I, like Joe Ellis, was in ROTC in college, was commissioned in the early 60s, was deferred for grad school, then went on active duty in the Army just as Vietnam became intense.
	hnn.us /articles/112.html (2197 words)

	We are all Joseph Ellis - Salon
		Following the revelation that noted historian Joseph Ellis lied about his military service in Vietnam, Edmund Morris, author of the much-criticized Reagan biography "Dutch," in which a fictional version of Morris plays a major role, wrote an Op-Ed piece for the June 22 New York Times.
		"Having been chastised by the eminent historian Joseph Ellis for fictionalizing the story of my life in 'Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan,' I suppose I should feel some satisfaction at the news that he has fictionalized his own," Morris wrote.
		Ellis has also had difficulties with the "truth." Actually, I feel no joy in Professor Ellis' discomfiture, only a profound sense of unsurprise.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2001/06/22/morris/index.html (852 words)

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