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Tag: Gordon S. Wood

  • A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood

    A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood

    Late to the party Wood’s body of work will remain preeminent for some time in the historiography of the American Founding. But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.” “Unlike today’s liberals who quote…

  • Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century

    Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century

    “Educated people of varying political persuasions celebrated republicanism for its spirit, its morality, its freedom, its sense of friendship and duty, and its vision of society. Republicanism as a set of values and a form of life was much too pervasive, comprehensive, and involved with being liberal and enlightened to be seen as subversive or…