Gordon S. Wood
Author · 13 books
Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association; The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; The American Revolution: A History; The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin; Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, which was a New York Times bestseller; Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (OUP, 2009), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American History Book Prize from the New-York Historical Society; and Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. He is a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books.
Series
Books
Empire of Liberty
A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
2009
The American Revolution
Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1776 by Gordon S. Wood
2015
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
1969
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
2004
The Purpose of the Past
Reflections on the Uses of History
2008
The Making of the Constitution
1987
The American Revolution
A History
2002
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
1992
The American Revolution
Writings from the Pamphlet Debate: Vol. 1, 1764-1772
2015
Friends Divided
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
2017
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
2011
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
2006
Power and Liberty
Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
2021
