some my favorite Gordon Wood quotes:
āHistory does not teach lots of little lessons. Insofar as it it teaches any lessons, it teaches only one big one: that nothing ever works out quite the way its managers intended or expected.ā
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Schoolhouse Rock is a cute cartoon, but in my opinion, it vastly oversimplifies American politics and the sheer amount of people exposed to the simplistic illustration has downstream effects thatā¦ arenāt great.
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RIP Gordon Wood, whose āCreation,ā p.562, is worth a reread any day, esp. today: āthe Federalists fixed the terms for the future discussion of American politics ā¦. and created a distinctly American political theory but only at the cost of eventually impoverishing later American political thought.ā
Andy Craig at the Unpopulist @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net on the great Gordon Wood.
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Wood's *Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787* is probably one of my top 5 books in US History. It came out in 1969. I read it in grad school in the 1990s. I wanted my students to get a taste of it so I assigned a chapter in my US to 1865 class this past semester.
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Gordon Wood understood the genius of our founding better than the Founders themselves. Rest in Peace, sir.
āOne of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.ā ā New York Times Book ReviewāDuring the nearly two decades s...
Gordon Wood died yesterday at 92 after being struck by a car in East Providence. He was my Phd advisor and I recall some experiences with him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...
I just heard the news that Gordon Wood, a towering figure in...
