Education
After the war, the G.I. Bill helped him to study at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1951 with a degree in history.
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Career
Born in Los Angeles, Wood volunteered for the Royal Air Force before the United States entered the Second World War. After four years in the R.A.F., he was drafted into the United States. Air Force and served in Italy. Between 1958 and 1963, Wood taught at Columbia University.
He then accepted an appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles before taking up, in 1966, a chair in political science at the newly established York University in Toronto, Canada.
He retired from York in 1988, and settled in England a decade later, where he died of cancer in Devon. The Woods had one son, Cody Markwell Wood, who died suddenly in 1984.
Obituary in the Guardian Bibliography of writings.
Politics
From 1955 to 1957, he studied at Cambridge University for his Doctor of Philosophy His doctoral thesis, Communism and British Intellectuals, was published in 1959. Communism and British Intellectuals, Columbia University Press, 1959. Foundations of Political Economy: Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society, University of California Press, 1994.
Views
His final book, a jeremiad against the direction of his country of origin entitled Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay, appeared posthumously in 2004. John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism, University of California Press, 1984. A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, with Ellen Meiksins Wood, New York University Press, 1997.
Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay, Verso, 2004.
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Communist Party