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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

byStacy Schiff

A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Drawing on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, the narrative gives The Revolutionary a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the samuel adams becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within biography & autobiography and history. The Revolutionary ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

Little Brown & Company

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

422

ISBN

9780316441117