![]() ![]() President Obama awarded him the 2010 National Humanities Medal, presented at the White House in March 2011, for “scholarship that provides insight into the founding of our Nation and the drafting of the United States Constitution. Wood is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. ![]() The issue of slavery could not be banished, as the crisis that erupted in 1819 over admitting Missouri as a slave state showed. Wood The Era of Good Feeling that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. His most recent book will be published in May 2011: The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. 'Empire of Liberty,' Jefferson's phrase, is also a neat capsule of the contradiction between a republic of free and equal mostly rural. A recent book, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, won the American History Book Prize in 2010. Empire of Liberty is the title of Gordon Wood's magisterial new history of the early American republic, 1789 to 1815: boom and transformation on our shores, the rise and fall of Napoleon in the wider world. In addition to his books, he has written a number of influential articles, notably Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution (1966), Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century (1982), and Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution (1987). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. ![]() Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. ![]()
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