Books by Gordon S. Wood

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2. Gordon S. Wood, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson .  This is a high quality work, as you might expect.  Still, I am numb from the oversupply of material on the Founding Fathers, and so I could read no more than a third of this one.  If only it had come out twenty years ago.

5. Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 .  Is "magisterial" simply a fancy word for "boring"?  Since I won't read past p.100 in this book, I guess I'll never find out.