

Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and the author of several books, including George Washington on Leadership, What Would the Founders Do?, America’s First Dynasty, Alexander Hamilton, American, and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. He is a best-selling author of 12 previous books, including American Sphinx, which won the National Book Award, and Founding Brothers, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

Ellis, professor of history at Mount Holyoke since 1972, is one of the nation’s leading scholars of American history. The Cause brings together a cast of familiar and forgotten characters, challenging the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people and a nation. He takes a fresh look at the events between 17, revealing a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of revolutionaries. Ellis presents his culminating work on the American Founding by rethinking the American Revolution as we have known it.

Ellis, Joseph pubblicato da Random House Audio a 23.43: entra nel sito e risparmia online con le offerte. Watch the free program livestreamed on the National Archives YouTube channel.īOOK TALK: The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773–1783Īuthor Joseph J. American Sphinx un audiolibro in inglese di J. As a selection for the Spring 1998 Quality Paperback Book Club, Ellis's book is lauded with a quote from The New York Times Book Review that it is 'fresh and uncluttered but rich in historical context. ET, the National Archives presents author Joseph Ellis in conversation with historian Richard Brookhiser about The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773–1783. American Sphinx, The Character of Thomas Jefferson won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author Joseph Ellis To Discuss “The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773–1783”
