Gordon Wood won a loyal popular audience, readers in law schools and political science departments and more, and my generation of specialists in the history of the American revolution and early republic never really did that, so people are angry at him. That's 80 % of the beef.
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The NYT OpEd vs academic history—hardly an even fight. I’d also repeat old quip about battles in academe being so nasty, because the stakes are so small—except, in this case, with the behemoth NYT, the stakes are suddenly large.
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