Wood, Gordon S.

Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011

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Wood, Gordon S.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2004

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Wood, Gordon S.

Summary: A series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006

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Wood, Gordon S.

Contents: Rip Van Winkle's America -- Experiment in republicanism -- A monarchical republic -- The Federalist program -- The emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican party -- The French Revolution in America -- John Adams and the few and the many -- The crisis of 1798-1799 -- The Jeffersonian revolution of 1800 -- Republican society -- The Jeffersonian West -- Law and an independent judiciary -- Chief...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009

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Wood, Gordon S.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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