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Author:
Stacy Schiff
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
October 25, 2022
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.
What The Reviewers Say
Schiff paints a vivid portrait of a demagogue who was also a decorous man of ideals, acknowledging Adams’s innovative, extralegal activities as well as his personal virtues.
[A] tour de force.
The first two-thirds of The Revolutionary make for riveting, suspenseful and even laugh-out-loud reading.
... charged.
