This is thinking in public a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Mola, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

in Louisville, Kentucky.

Gordon Wood is a renowned scholar of American history.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Radicalism of the

American Revolution. He's won the Bancroft Prize. His books have been national

bestsellers, but more importantly than that, they have had a decisive impact upon American intellectual life.

Professor Wood graduated with his PhD from Harvard University and since then has

enjoyed a prolific career in academia. He has taught history at Harvard University,

the College of William and Mary, and Brown University. He has also been a professor at Cambridge

University in Great Britain. He's written so many books, many of them have been

award-winning books. His book entitled The Creation of the American Republic 1776

to 1787 won the Bancroft Prize in American History.

In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal

from President Barack Obama.

I've learned a great deal from every one of Professor Woods books.

I am deeply indebted to him as a scholar and as a public intellectual

and as a specialist in American history. Among his books, one of my favorites is revolutionary

characters, but today we're here to talk about his newest

book Power and Liberty constitutionalism in the American Republic.

Professor Gordon Wood welcome to to Thinking in Public.

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