exceptionalism, that he liked". He jokingly described Gingrich's praise in an interview on C-SPAN in 2002 as "the kiss of death for me among a lot of academics, who are not right-wing Republicans." Wood was mentioned in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. In one scene, Matt Damon's character mentions Gordon Wood while standing up to a Harvard student who is ridiculing Ben Affleck's character at a bar. He accuses the Harvard student of shallowly reiterating ideas he has encountered in his coursework, telling him that soon he would be "regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about [...] the pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization." Wood said of the scene, "That’s my two seconds of fame! More kids know about that than any of the books I have written." This scene was later parodied by the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in which the character Charlie Kelly attempts to "pull a Good Will Hunting" and asks "does no one know who Gordon Wood is?" Personal life Wood married the former Louise Goss on April 30, 1956. They have three children: Christopher, Elizabeth and Amy. Their son, Christopher Wood, is a professor of German at New York University and their daughter, Amy, is a professor of history at Illinois State University, and Elizabeth is an administrator at Milton Academy. Works Books The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. () The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2001. () The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. () Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. () The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. () Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. () The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. New York: Penguin, 2011. () Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. New York: Penguin, 2017. () Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. () Pamphlets and lectures Revolution and the Political Integration of the Enslaved and Disenfranchised. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1974. () The Making of the Constitution. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 1987. () Monarchism and