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