The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (53 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His 1969 book,
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787,
received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1992 book,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution,
won the Pulitzer Prize and Emerson Prize. Wood contributes regularly to
The New Republic
and
The New York Review of Books.