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Gordon S. Wood, eminent scholar of the American Revolution, dies at 92 after being hit by a car
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Gordon S. Wood, eminent scholar of the American Revolution, dies at 92 after being hit by a car

  • By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood has died. He was 92. Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island. Wood wrote many books and was a longtime professor at Brown University. His book "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" won the Pulitzer in 1993 and contended that the war eventually created a society fundamentally different from that of Colonial times. Wood never gained the mass popularity of David McCullough or Doris Kearns Goodwin, but his writings were widely reviewed, debated and consulted and his opinions frequently sought.

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