But what is worse than all, observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other’s testicles.31
Gordon S. Wood
But what is worse than all, observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other’s testicles.31
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.
