And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly.
newrepublic.com/article/2115...
The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.
