Five best books on American history

Gordon Wood, a professor of history emeritus at Brown University and the author, most recently, of The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, named a five best list of books on American history for the Wall Street Journal.Number One on his list:The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made Itby Richard HofstadterKnopf, 1948Although Richard Hofstadter's "The American