By Stacy Schiff
Wow! I had no idea how important Samuel Adams was to the revolution and creation of our country. What an interesting man he must have been. He was the guy working the crowds in the bars and other meeting places…getting the carpenters, masons, and other folks like them informed and riled up.
The British liked working with the elite, but that is NOT who started our revolution. Samuel Adams’ father was a brewer and handed it down to Samuel but poor Samuel did not have a good handle on running a business. He was broke or poor most of his adult life. But he did know how to start a revolution.
He had a keen sense of right and wrong and was a prolific writer, under many names. The truth was not always his goal. Sometimes it was just to make a point and get the colonies to pay attention to how England was treating them. He was behind the Boston Tea Party but, like so many other things, he rarely left any fingerprints.
The author writes in a way that kept my attention every time I read it. Samuel has not received the credit he deserves until now. His cousin John Adams was with him many times but they both worked very differently.
If you want a good book about the revolutionary times and want to see a side of the revolution you probably have not seen before, read this one.
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