Historian Gordon Wood discusses his latest book on America’s most famous Founding Father, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. How did Franklin evolve from British loyalist to American colonist? Has history inaccurately portrayed him?
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Gordon Wood
Gordon S. Wood (1933–2026) was a preeminent American historian and professor at Brown University, celebrated for his pioneering studies of the American Revolution and the early republic. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
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