"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 back of the
American Revolution. 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 less son of a well-off
family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the
colonies"--
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 recling our nation's
self-evident truths at a moment when we seemed to have forgotten
them." --Oprah Daily
A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the
most essential Founding her--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 back 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 less 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 recling our nation’s self-evident
truths at a moment when we seemed to have forgotten them." —Oprah
Daily
A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the
most essential Founding her—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 back 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 less 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.