REVOLUTIONARY CHARACTERS What Made the Founders Different

Gordon S. Wood

ISBN 10: 1594200939 / ISBN 13: 9781594200939

Edité par Penguin Press, New York, 2006

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Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 321 pages.

N° de réf. du vendeur 326856

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: REVOLUTIONARY CHARACTERS What Made the Founders Different
• Éditeur: Penguin Press, New York
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1594200939
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781594200939
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Military & War
  • American Revolution

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Synopsis

Unusual book

Biographie de l'auteur

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His 1969 book The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes, and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1992 book The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. His 2009 book Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, won the 2010 New York Historical Society Prize in American History. Wood's other books include Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and most recently, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, and he contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.