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Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read revolutionary summer. Ellis serves up the spirit of 1776 with sparkling prose, lucid analysis. The birth of american independence ellis, joseph j. The author of nine books, ellis was awarded the pulitzer prize for founding brothers. Educated at the college of william and mary and yale university, he served as a captain in the army and taught at west. Joseph ellis, a professor of history at mount holyoke since 1972, is one of the nations foremost scholars of american history. The summer of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our countrys founding. Pulitzer prizewinning author joseph ellis has delivered a fast paced narrative and lucid analysis of the political and military events of that dramatic time in revolutionary summer. Stefan rudnickis naturalsounding delivery m revolutionary summer by joseph j ellis read by. Ellis penned the national book awardwinning american sphinx and the pulitzer prizewinning founding brothers, a fixture on the new york times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the american republicjohn adams, aaron burr, benjamin franklin, alexander.
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