Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: You could miss this book and still have a good life...

Anyone sitting down to read this book should know that Gordon Wood is a socialist historian who views events through the lense of class conflict. With that orientation, he has written a revisionist history of the American Revolution that argues (against 200 years of American scholarship) that the revolution was not a political, but in fact, was a social revolution. Wood writes well but he is just mistaken on this point. The same elites that were in power before the revolution were in power afterward. Ours was not a social revolution on the order of the French or Russian Revolutions. Most historians view the American Revolution as a struggle for independence and a clash of political ideas - Wood brings a neo-Marxist interpretation to the events, interpreting them as class struggle and social conflict.