Radicalism of the American Revolution
By Gordon S. Wood
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 ...
The American Revolution
A History
By Gordon S. Wood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses ...
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
By Gordon S. Wood
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an ...
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
By Gordon S. Wood
Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels very far away from us indeed: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Co. seem as distant as marble ...
Friends Divided
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
By Gordon S. Wood
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon ...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
By Gordon S. Wood
Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a ...
Empire of Liberty
A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
By Gordon S. Wood
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners ...
The Purpose of the Past
Reflections on the Uses of History
By Gordon S. Wood
Reflections on the historian's craft and its place in American culture, from a master craftsman History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we ...
Representation in the American revolution
By Gordon S. Wood
From one of America’s most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon S. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is undiminished. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a ...
The Rising Glory Of America, 1760-1820
Guidelines for designing relief programs to counter the effects of natural or human-caused disasters. The authors assess the needs of afflicted communities and argue that development efforts should ...
John Adams
Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775
By Gordon S. Wood
Propelled by the power of his pen and the clarity of his judgment, an ambitious young provincial lawyer named John Adams became a major figure in the American Revolution. This first of two volumes ...
The making of the Constitution
By Gordon S. Wood
Dr. Stephen Oates, the twelfth Edmondson Lecturer, presents new insights into one of the most important forms of published history--biography. Lecture I argues that biography is history with a ...
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