This is a very perceptive, insightful essay. There are a couple of historiographical points I might quibble with—but so what? It also conveys the terrible juxtaposition of Gordon’s death with the moral gravity of the 250th, something we are finding it difficult to grasp.
Jack Rakove
Andy Craig at the Unpopulist @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net on the great Gordon Wood.
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Gordon Wood understood the genius of our founding better than the Founders themselves. Rest in Peace, sir.
