The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding by Joseph Ellis (Review)
Reviewed by Timothy Sandefur
New York: Knopf, 2025
226 pp., $31
It’s clear from The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding that Joseph Ellis is bothered by the scorn recently heaped upon the American founding fathers by writers such as those affiliated with The New York Times’s “1619 Project.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian opens his new book with a conde…
