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In Depth: Gordon Wood

About the Program

Gordon Wood is author, co-author or editor of more than a dozen books, including:

The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969); Representation in the American Revolution (1969); The Making of the Constitution (1987); The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992); The American Revolution: A History (2001); The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004); Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (2006); The Purpose of the Past: Reflections of the Uses of History (2008); Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (2010).

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Gordon Wood

Gordon Wood is the author of several books, including The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.  Mr. Wood is a University Professor Emeritus at Brown University.

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  • Saturday, September 11th at 9:58am (ET)
  • Monday, September 6th at 12am (ET)
  • Sunday, September 5th at 12pm (ET)
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