BIO: CURRENT:
· Alva O. Way University Professor & Professor of History - Brown University (1969 – 2008)
· Contributor, New York Review of Books
· Contributor, The New Republic
BOOKS:
· The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (1969)
Winner of Bancroft and John H. Dunning Prize
Nominated for National Book Award
· The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)
Winner of Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize
· The American Revolution: A History (2003)
· The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2005)
· Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (2006)
· The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (2008)
Info: Historian Gordon Wood discusses his new book "The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History." This book is a collection of his reviews of works by other historians. He examines the works of such historians as David McCullough, Barbara Tuchman, David Herbert Donald, and David Hackett Fischer, among many others. He also gives some recommendations on history books and a short lesson on how to read a history book.
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