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Gordon Wood Told the Truth About America

Gordon Wood showed us that a great historian could also be a regular guy.

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Gordon Wood's American Revolution

Widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent historian of the American Founding in our time, Wood was virtually without peer within academic American history today.

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