Only those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves, said Smith, have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.
Gordon S. Wood
Only those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves, said Smith, have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.
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.
