Peter Wood

All the rage | 30 June 2012

Ostentatious anger once seemed a distinctively American style,  but now it’s taking over the world

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Peter Wood
Peter Wood is the President of the National Association of Scholars. He is author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now.

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