Gordon S. Wood

Gordon S. Wood (1933-2026) was the author of many books about revolutionary America, 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, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, which he discussed with Lewis H. Lapham on the December 8, 2017, episode of The World in Time.