Gordon Wood: Empire and Liberty, then and now

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DATE : Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:43:39 +0000
Entered in Database : 2009-12-21 16:43:39
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Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Gordon Wood (27 minutes, mp3) Gordon Wood, the wonderfully plain-spoken Pulitzer and Bancroft prize historian at Brown, thinks that Thomas Jefferson would find Barack Obama obnoxiously, over-reachingly Hamiltonian… and that Alexander Hamilton would likewise dismiss Obama as a Jefferson dreamer. Empire of Liberty is the title of Gordon Wood’s magisterial [...]

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