Joseph Ellis
Joseph J. Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, is a nationally recognized scholar of American history from colonial times through the early decades of the Republic. The author of seven books, he is recipient of the National Book Award in Nonfiction for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson and the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers. He lives in Massachusetts.
“Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own.”
Joseph Ellis
“Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.”
Joseph Ellis
“Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.”
Joseph Ellis
“Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.”
Joseph Ellis