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Film, Video Gordon S. Wood: 2018 National Book Festival

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  • Gordon S. Wood: 2018 National Book Festival

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  • Gordon S. Wood discusses "Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson" with David M. Rubenstein at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • September 01, 2018

Notes

  • -  An emeritus professor of history at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood is the author of "Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787," which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," which won the Pulitzer Prize for history and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. "The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin" was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. He has since written several critically acclaimed and widely read histories, including "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different" and "The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History." His new book is "Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson" (Penguin).

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  • 42 minutes 15 seconds

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