![]() He offers no newfangled approaches, no strongly stated positions, no contests with other historians. In this new work, he concentrates more on events, institutions, politics and diplomacy than in his earlier books yet proves himself a master of these topics, too. No surprise there, for he's the author of a celebrated work ( The Radicalism of the American Revolution The emergence of democracy and individualism is his overarching theme. ![]() ![]() Acknowledged as the leading historian of the period, Wood brings authority and easy style to a tough task-wrestling into order a period of unusual anxiety, confusion, crisis and unbridled growth in the nation's affairs. ![]() Anew addition to the Oxford History of the United States, Wood's superb book brings together much of what historians now know about the first quarter-century of the nation's history under the Constitution. ![]()
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