Background
Wood, Gordon Stewart was born on November 27, 1933 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Herbert G. and Marion (Friberg) Wood.
(In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical...)
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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In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, ?What made these men great???and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each?Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine?is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made?men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.
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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 that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.
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Wood, Gordon Stewart was born on November 27, 1933 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Herbert G. and Marion (Friberg) Wood.
AB, Tufts University, 1955. AM, Harvard, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
Fellow Institute Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1964-1966. Assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1967. Associate professor University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967-1969.
Professor history Brown University, Providence, since 1969. Pitt. professor Cambridge University, 1982-1983. Bancroft lecturer United States Naval Academy, 1986.
Anson G. Phelps lecturer New York University, 1986. Charles Edmundson lecturer Baylor University, 1987. Samuel Paley lecturer Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1987.
Presidential lecture series on presidency, 1991. Trustee, visiting professor history & law Northwestern University, 2003. Board trustees Tufts University.
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Member council Institute Early American History and Culture, 1980-1983. Board trustees Colonial Williamsburg. With United States Air Force, 1955-1958.
Member American History Association (John Dunning prize), Organization American Historians, Society of America Historians, National History Society (chairman board advisors), Society Historians of the Early American Republic (president), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society.
Married Louise Goss, April 30, 1956. Children: Christopher, Elizabeth, Amy.