The Federalists resisted every attempt by Northern artisans to organize, lest their success, as one Federalist writer put it, excite similar attempts among all other descriptions of persons who live by manual labor.79
Gordon S. Wood
The Federalists resisted every attempt by Northern artisans to organize, lest their success, as one Federalist writer put it, excite similar attempts among all other descriptions of persons who live by manual labor.79
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.
