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TITLE: Gordon S. Wood: 2008 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Gordon S. Wood
EVENT DATE: 09/27/2008
RUNNING TIME: 27 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Gordon S. Wood speaks at the 2008 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of many award-winning works, including "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787," which won the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award; "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize; and "The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin," recipient of the Julia Ward Howe Prize. His latest book is "The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History" (Penguin, 2008). He contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He lives in Providence, R.I.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2008