Radicalism Of The American Revolution Summary

Have you ever wanted to grasp a deeper meaning of the American Revolution? Well, I've got the perfect book for you! In the novel The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood, he explains the democracy and Revolution in a way that you haven't heard it before! The author is a pretty wealthy man, who has a pretty good resume. He's taught at: Harvard, The University of Michigan, Cambridge University, and a few others.(Wikipedia) The author's purpose for writing the book was to educate the reader even deeper on the Revolution. The intended audiences are war historians, Gordon S. Wood was raised on Christian values which in this book is important because in today’s world, usually if you’re conservative you’re religious.
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The revolution transitioned from sovereignty to republic then to democracy. Wood describes all of these transitions so thoroughly; the first one: sovereignty this is when the colonists were still grasping onto their old ways. The colonists needed a leader, but they also didn’t want another king, the colonists didn’t know any better that what they were used to, so having a king again was an idea they held onto for awhile. Republic was what the colonists transitioned into after the sovereignty idea. They transition into basically having a president, but they still make a majority of the bigger decisions throughout the government. The last transition they went into is what we basically have today which is a democracy. We the people do not have all of the power but we do have a say in who is elected to take the power we give to them.The founding fathers never even desired what we have now, they wanted more of a republic, instead of a democracy. Gordon S. Wood transitioned through all of these and most historians would agree except for the fact that many would say the government was radical, not conservative, as Gordon would