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Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008), ISBN-13 9781594201547.
This work, by a historian of impeccable credentials, is a collection of twenty one extended review essays that were previously published between 1981 and 2007.
As Wood initially wrote the essays for a general audience (most were published either in The New York Review of Books or The New Republic), this collection may be especially useful to non-academics who may want to know why historians currently write the way they do a good overview of how the study of history has changed over the past eighty years and why.
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