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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

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A revelatory biography of arguably the most essential Founding Father--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. "A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important" (Ron Chernow).

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." John Adams thought his cousin "the most sagacious politician" of all. With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd, eloquent, and intensely disciplined man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A singular figure at a sin- gular moment, Adams packaged and amplified the Boston Massacre. He helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party. He employed every tool in an innovative arsenal to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country. For his efforts he became the most wanted man in America: When Paul Revere rode to Lexington in 1775, it was to warn Samuel Adams that he was about to be arrested for treason.

In The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, Stacy Schiff brings her masterful skills to Adams's improbable life, illuminating his transformation from aimless son of a well-off family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the colonies. Arresting, original, and deliriously dramatic, this is a long-overdue chapter in the history of our nation.

Author: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316441117

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2022 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2022
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2022
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 24
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