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David Gordon
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[ The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. By Gordon S. Wood. Penguin Press, 2008. 323 pages.] Gordon Wood is one of America’s most distinguished historians. He is best known for his Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (University of North Carolina Press, 1969) a study that controversially claimed to find a communal,