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Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award!
Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American politics, Adams astutely forced Britain into coercive military measures that ultimately led to the irreversible split in the empire. His remarkable political...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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. He employed every tool available to rally a town,...
8) John Hancock
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of John Hancock, one of the the wealthiest men in the American colonies and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
9) Samuel Adams
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the patriot, Samuel Adams, from his religious upbringing and education to his important role in the American Revolution.