Joseph J. Ellis, the author of the Thomas Jefferson biography “American Sphinx,” a professor at Mount Holyoke College and a Pulitzer Prize winner, is earning fresh public attention, but not ...

Historian Joseph Ellis is the author of “American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson,” which won the National Book Award. This column originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Most ...

I n the world of American historians, Thomas Jefferson is considered a tad overexposed. That’s why Joseph Ellis’ 1997 National Book Award- winning American Sphinx was such a coup. Here was the ...