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1. “His Excellency: George Washington,” by Joseph J. Ellis. (Knopf, 2004.) The least phallic monument to the Father of Our Country (though Ellis does wax poetically on GW’s sterility).
HIS EXCELLENCY: GEORGE WASHINGTON JOSEPH J. ELLIS He didn't actually havewooden teeth, and in his first military command--at age 22--he presided over a bloody disaster that helped kick off the French and Indian War. Handsome, burly, charismatic and enigmatic, Washington turns out to be nothing like...
In third grade, my class visited the Bronx Zoo; in fourth grade, we moved on to Ellis Island; freshman year of high school, we were cultured enough for the Met; and senior year, mature enough for the Holocaust Museum in New York. For a long time, New York City was...
Patchwork Inventor: Ellis Developments Ltd. Availability: Now, in England only To Learn More: ellisdev.co.uk It may look like a delicate doily, but the Bioimplantable Device is a rugged internal bandage that helps patients recover swiftly from shoulder-joint-replacement surgery. Made of standard polyester surgical thread, the device has an...
DIED. C.P. ELLIS, 78, whose transformation from Ku Klux Klan Grand Cyclops to civil rights activist was chronicled in the book The Best of Enemies and the film An Unlikely Friendship; in Durham, N.C. The cause of the shift: a 1971 community forum on violence as Durham tried to integrate...