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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And 1619 helping to popularize an alternative non-Woodian history -- in fact has already reached a much larger audience than Wood ever has. Which might explain the beef on the other side.
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It's always sad not to be asked to a party.
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