Voice of the Voters' guest on January 17 and July 4th, 2007

Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize.

Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. He received his B.A. from Tufts University in 1955 and has since served as a trustee there. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Japan, he entered the Ph.D. program in history at Harvard University. He studied under Bernard Bailyn and received his Ph.D. in 1964. He taught briefly at Harvard, William and Mary, and the University of Michigan, before joining the Brown faculty in 1969. He was also Pitt Professor at Cambridge University in 1982-83. In addition to his books (listed below), 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). He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Republic. His current project is the 1789-1815 volume in The Oxford History of the United States. Dr. Wood's latest book is Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different.

Partial bibliography:

* —. (1969). The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. U of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4723-2.

* —. (1991). The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Vintage-Random. ISBN 0-679-73688-3.

* —. (2002). The American Revolution: A History. Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-64057-6.

* —. (2004). The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Penguin. ISBN 1-59420-019-X.