num_pages: 432
description: 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. A singular figure at a singular moment Adams amplified the Boston Massacre. He helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party. 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 Adamss 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.
language: English
title: The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
publisher: Little, Brown and Company