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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 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.
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"Filled with fun facts."
"[A] tour de force ..."
"Schiff illuminates how well in advance of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin or John Adams (his more prominent cousin) Samuel Adams strategized, wrote and wrangled the American Revolution into inevitability ..."
"A sturdy portrait of Samuel Adams for our times."
"Schiff keeps Samuel Adams' story lively even through what might be the otherwise tedious minutiae of the Stamp Act."
"Revelatory and frequently riveting ..."
"The effect is electrifying, and Schiff writes with keen insight and wit throughout."
"As a biography, The Revolutionary is incomplete, but as a portrait of an activist, it's superb."
"Now that dread threatens to subvert our republic in favor of populist authoritarianism."
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