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The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Gordon S. Wood

Winner:Pulitzer Prize -History (1993)
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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Mar 2nd, 1993
  • Pages: 464
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.37in - 5.15in - 1.00in - 0.76lb
  • EAN: 9780679736882
  • Categories: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions

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About the Author

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution, the Bancroft Prize-winning The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. He writes frequently for The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

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Praise for this book

"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