Gordon S. Wood Quote

Republics required sufficient virtue in the character of their citizens to prevent corruption and eventual decay.

Gordon S. Wood

Republics required sufficient virtue in the character of their citizens to prevent corruption and eventual decay.

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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.