Description: "Passionate Sage is [Ellis's] best book."--Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review
Brief description: Joseph J. Ellis is the best-selling author of twelve previous books, including American Sphinx, which won the National Book Award, and Founding Brothers, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Plymouth, Vermont.
Review Quotes: Impassioned and erudite. . . . A captivating portrait of this Massachusetts native as a wonderfully contrary genius possessed of an uncommon moral intelligence and farsighted political wisdom.--Michiko Kakutani "The New York Times"