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    The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

    Gordon S. Wood

    Wood scrutinizes the less typically American traits possessed by Franklin–such as his longtime loyalty to the Crown–and why he still became one of the Revolution’s necessary men.

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    The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

    Gordon S. Wood

    Wood examines how the historian’s craft has changed radically over the past 40 years. This work offers insight into what great historians do, how they can stumble, and what strains…

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    Representation in the American Revolution

    Gordon S. Wood

    Examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Presenting political and constitutional…

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    The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

    Gordon S. Wood

    This text describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration to the ratification of the Constitution. The author discusses the debate over Republicanism.

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    The American Revolution: A History

    Gordon S. Wood

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    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…

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    Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

    Gordon S. Wood

    A majestic dual biography of two of America’s most enduring figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation and shape its course.

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    Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Gordon S. Wood

    Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution.

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    Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

    Gordon S. Wood

    From the most respected among all scholars of the colonial and Revolutionary periods – Washington Post World, comes a marvelous group portrait of the Founding Fathers, rich with insight into…

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    The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    Gordon S. Wood

    Because the U.S. began as an idea, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history. Wood explores the ideological origins of…

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    The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate Vol. 1 1764-1772 (LOA #265)

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    From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thrity-nine of the most influential…

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    The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate Vol. 2 1773-1776 (LOA #266)

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    For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, the leading historian of the era presents a landmark two-volume edition of the thirty-nine pamphlets charting the course of…

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    The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1776: A Library of America Boxed Set

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    For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that…

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    The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

    Gordon S Wood

    From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic–and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes–comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology…

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    The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin Lib/E

    Gordon S Wood

    From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic–and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes–comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology…

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    The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

    Gordon S Wood

    From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic–and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes–comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology…

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    Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past

    Offers a collection of essays by twenty-one American historians that reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. Divided into three parts, this work contains chapters on exceptionalism…

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    John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783 (loa #214)

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    This second of two volumes gathering the essential writings of one of the towering figures of the American Revolution traces John Adams’s career from his leading role in the debate…

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    Common Sense and Other Writings

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    Contains an introduction by Gordon S Wood.

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    Democracy and the American Revolution

    The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a…

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    Founding Visions: The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America

    Lance Banning

    His revisionist masterpiece, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, received the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American…

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    Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

    Gordon S. Wood (Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus, Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University)

    A magnificent new volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States, written by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wood.

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    Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

    Gordon S. Wood (Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus, Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University)

    Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture, Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first…

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    Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

    Gordon S. Wood (Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University)

    Written by one of early America’s most eminent historians, this book masterfully discusses the debates over constitutionalism that took place in the Revolutionary era.

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    Treated Wood-block Paving [microform]

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty

    Laura Randa King

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