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The Radicalism of the American Revolution

By: Gordon S. Wood
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Pulitzer Prize, History, 1993

Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing 30 years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776. In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society with feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view in which people were divided between the nobility and "the Herd." He shows how the theories of the country's founders became realities that sometimes baffled and disappointed them. Above all, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Wood rescues the revolution from abstraction, allowing readers to see it with a true sense of its drama---and not a little awe.

©1993 Gordon S. Wood (P)2011 Tantor Americas Military Political Science Politics & Government Revolution & Founding United States Capitalism War of 1812 United Kingdom US Constitution Socialism Taxation Law

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Critic reviews

"The most important study of the American Revolution to appear in over twenty years...a landmark book." (Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review)
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Would you listen to The Radicalism of the American Revolution again? Why?

Probably would not listen again, it was quite heavy and chock full of facts (which is also a strength)

Who was your favorite character and why?

Not sure this question applies, it's a non-fiction book - but I'm going to say Alexander Hamilton

Which character – as performed by Paul Boehmer – was your favourite?

see above

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The redcoats were ... Actually Very Bad

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This is a really amazing, in-depth book that will help you understand both Britain and America better.

Fascinating cultural study

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This author seems determined to glorify the "Founding Fathers" while ignoring the enormous contradiction to all their espoused values of SLAVERY. The bunch of white guys who awarded him the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 should be severely reprimanding themselves (but probably aren't).

Shameful Denial of Oppression of Slaves

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