The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize WinnerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991 - 464 pages In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. |
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Hierarchy | 11 |
Patricians and Plebeians | 24 |
Patriarchal Dependence | 43 |
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