cover image The Radicalism of the American Revolution

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Gordon Wood. Vintage Books USA, $17.95 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73688-2

The gifted Wood offers a fresh take on the formative years of the United States, explaining the astonishing transformation of disparate, quarreling colonies into a bustling, unruly republic of egalitarian-minded citizens. (Mar.)