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Gordon S. Wood

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history emeritus at Brown University. His 1969 book, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award. Wood’s 1992 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. His 2009 book, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 17891815, won the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize. In 2010, Wood was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama.
Friends Divided
The Idea of America
The Purpose of the Past
Revolutionary Characters
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Books

Friends Divided
The Idea of America
The Purpose of the Past
Revolutionary Characters
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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