Gordon S. Wood
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Description
The American Revolution signaled a great change in the course of world history and progress. From this colonial revolt sprouted ideals of liberty and democracy, and all the aspirations and ambitions of a new people.
In this work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution, grounding the events and ideas that shaped the American consciousness.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book deals with important issues of constitutionalism in the American Revolution. It ranges from the imperial debate that led to the Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in 1787. It includes a discussion of slavery and constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the major tripartite institutions of government, and the demarcation between...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about where we should be going. But while the nature of memory is a constant, the nature of history has changed radically over the past forty years, for good but also for ill. Historian Wood examines the sea change in the field, offers insight into what historians do, and how they can stumble. New currents of thought have...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 213
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 743 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
" ... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters"--Jacket.
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 volumes (xxii, 935 pages [v.1] ; xxii, 954 pages [v.2]) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded." --
Author
Series
Library of America volume 214
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 811 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Traces John Adams' career from his leading role in the debate over independence ... to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the field, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe ... It includes his highly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal letters ... extensive diary excerpts."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 276
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxv, 905 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English