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The Idea of America

by Gordon Wood
Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). May 2011. NAp. ISBN 9781594202902. $29.95.
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Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winner Wood has been writing persuasively about the American Revolution for a half century. This collection of essays, which range over his entire career, reveal how the Revolution has defined us as a nation.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Dec 01, 2010
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