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Revolutionary Samuel Adams

Revolutionary Samuel Adams

Biography & MemoirHistory
Pages
422
Published
2022
Language
English

Synopsis

This book uncovers the instrumental, often hidden, role of Samuel Adams in sparking the American Revolution. Despite being overshadowed by his more famous contemporaries, Adams's behind-the-scenes maneuvers were crucial in setting the revolution in motion. The author meticulously examines the limited available material, including politically charged essays written under pseudonyms, to provide a penetrating analysis of Adams's tactics and motivations.

Prose complexity
7/10

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InformativeIntellectualThought-Provoking

Genres

Biography & Memoir History Politics & Society Biography Political Thriller

About the author

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Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff (born October 26, 1961, in Adams, Massachusetts) is an American biographer and essayist. Her 1999 biography Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Saint-Exupéry: A Biography was a finalist for the same prize in 1995. Her other books include A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (winner of the George Washington Book Prize), Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Salem, 1692, and The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. She has held fe...