„Ordinary Americans came to believe that no one in a basic down-to-earth and day-in-and-day-out manner was really better than anyone else. That was equality as no other nation has ever quite had it.“ Gordon S. Wood RIP. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Die Gründerväter der Vereinigten Staaten wussten, was sie taten, aber nicht, was sie auslösten. Gordon Wood, der Historiker des revolutionären Moments, ist im Alter von 92 Jahren gestorben.