City Journal

Ironies and Compromises at the Nation’s Birth

In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

ONBOOKS | OPINION: ‘Coyote,’ ‘Contradiction’ reconsider American story

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...
Polygon

Contradiction review: picking up the pieces

I was assigned (OK, I demanded) to review Contradiction because I've got a not-so-secret passion for full-motion video (FMV) games, something that I've always felt a little ashamed of. Recently, I've ...
The New York Times

Joseph J. Ellis Doesn’t Think You Would Have Abolished Slavery, Either

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage. By Richard Kreitner Richard Kreitner is the host of the U.S.