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Joseph Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Founding Brothers and was a professor at Mt. Holyoke for many years, broken by a one-year suspension for fabricating an enviable military career as a platoon leader in Vietnam. Beloved by his studends and respected by his readers, he was widely seen as betraying both by his lies, both about himself and about Jefferson and Sally Hemings.