Gordon Wood

Gordon received his B.A. from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He joined the faculty at Brown in 1969 where he is currently Professor of History Emeritus. He is the author of many works, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. Other notable publications include The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary Characters:  What Made the Founders Different, Empire of Liberty:  A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 and The Idea of America:  Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

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