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    The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    Author Gordon S. Wood
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    Knopf | Vintage
    5.16"W x 8"H x 0.95"D   | 12 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Mar 02, 1993 | 464 Pages | 9780679736882
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    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
    • WINNER | 1993
      Pulitzer Prize
    • WINNER | 1992
      Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
    "The most important study of the American Revolution to appear in over twenty years ... a landmark book." —The New York Times Book Review

    "A breathtaking social, political, and ideological analysis. This book will set the agenda for discussion for some time to come." —Richard L. Bushman
    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, 1789–1815, won the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize. In 2010, Wood was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama. View titles by Gordon S. Wood
    I. Monarchy

    1. Hierarchy
    2. Patricians and Plebeians
    3. Patriarchal Dependence
    4. Patronage
    5. Political Authority

    II. Republicanism

    6. The Republicanization of Monarchy
    7. A Truncated Society
    8. Loosening the Bands of Society
    9. Enlightened Paternalism
    10. Revolution
    11. Enlightenment
    12. Benevolence

    III. Democracy

    13. Equality
    14. Interests
    15. The Assault on Aristocracy
    16. Democratic Officeholding
    17. A World Within Themselves
    18. The Celebration of Commerce
    19. Middle-Class Order

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    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

    Awards

    • WINNER | 1993
      Pulitzer Prize
    • WINNER | 1992
      Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

    Praise

    "The most important study of the American Revolution to appear in over twenty years ... a landmark book." —The New York Times Book Review

    "A breathtaking social, political, and ideological analysis. This book will set the agenda for discussion for some time to come." —Richard L. Bushman

    Author

    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, 1789–1815, won the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize. In 2010, Wood was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama. View titles by Gordon S. Wood

    Table of Contents

    I. Monarchy

    1. Hierarchy
    2. Patricians and Plebeians
    3. Patriarchal Dependence
    4. Patronage
    5. Political Authority

    II. Republicanism

    6. The Republicanization of Monarchy
    7. A Truncated Society
    8. Loosening the Bands of Society
    9. Enlightened Paternalism
    10. Revolution
    11. Enlightenment
    12. Benevolence

    III. Democracy

    13. Equality
    14. Interests
    15. The Assault on Aristocracy
    16. Democratic Officeholding
    17. A World Within Themselves
    18. The Celebration of Commerce
    19. Middle-Class Order

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