The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Name: The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Rating: 4.5 (563 reviews)
Author: Gordon S. Wood

by Gordon S. Wood

Biography Memoir

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4.5 stars from 563 reviews. Top 94% of Biography Memoir books we track.

447 pages~7.5 hr readPublished by Vintage BooksPublished 1992-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You're fascinated by how revolutions actually work and want to understand the messy gap between what founders intended and what they unleashed.
You enjoy rigorous historical analysis that challenges the sanitised version of American history you learned in school.
You appreciate deep synthesis that connects social, economic, and political threads into a coherent narrative about radical change.

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You want a patriotic celebration of the Founding Fathers or a straightforward political timeline.
You prefer narrative-driven history with characters and drama over structural analysis and intellectual history.
You're looking for a quick overview rather than a substantial, demanding work that requires sustained attention.

About this book

Gordon S. Wood synthesizes historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis to describe the events that shaped the American Revolution. The book presents the Revolution not merely as a separation from England, but as a transformation of an almost feudal society into a democratic one. Wood depicts how the emerging realities of this new democratic society sometimes baffled and disappointed the founding fathers.

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