The revolutionary : Samuel Adams / Stacy Schiff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schiff, Stacy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Declaration of Independence (United States).

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.

Adams, Samuel.

Politicians--United States--Biography.

Politicians.

United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers--Biography.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Samuel Adams

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Summary:

"Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available 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, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Truly the Man of the Revolution

II. A Voice in the Darkness, a Knock at the Door

III. The Great Town of Boston

IV. The Very Honest Samuel Adams, Clerk

V. Nothing Could Have Given Greater Disgust

VI. On the Brink of a Precipice

VII. Perhaps I Am Captious

VIII. It Is Dangerous To Be Silent

IX. An Exasperated People

X. I Shall Stand Alone

XI. A Remarkable Instance of Order and Justice Among Savages

XII. This Important Glorious Crisis

XIII. The Best Cause that Virtuous Men Contend For.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-404) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Kennedy fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780316441117

0316441112

OCLC:

1347227686