The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff is a detailed biography published by Little Brown in 2023, comprising 432 pages. This work explores the life of Samuel Adams, a pivotal figure in the American Revolution, highlighting his role in shaping the movement through both high-minded ideals and strategic actions. Schiff presents Adams as a key leader whose efforts in events like the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party were instrumental in rallying support for the revolutionary cause.
Readers will find a comprehensive examination of Adams’s transformation from a privileged youth to a determined radical who galvanized the colonies. The biography delves into his tactics and leadership during a critical period in American history, emphasizing his influence on the political landscape of the time. With a focus on biography and historical political processes, this edition offers insights into the Revolutionary Period and the complexities of leadership in the formation of the United States.
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This “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.
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.
ONE OF WALL STREET JOURNAL‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP 5 NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 And named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by The New Yorker, TIME, Oprah Daily, USA Today, New York Magazine, Air Mail, Boston Globe, and more!
“A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important.” –Ron Chernow
“A beautifully crafted, invaluable biography…Schiff ingeniously connects the past to our present and future, underscoring the lessons of Adams while reclaiming our nation’s self-evident truths at a moment when we seemed to have forgotten them.” —Oprah Daily
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