Gordon S. Wood Quote

173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one, wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.31

Gordon S. Wood

173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one, wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.31

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About Gordon S. Wood

Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.