The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

nONE OF WALL STREET JOURNAL'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 n ONE OF LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP 5 NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022 n ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022 n ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 n 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! n A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important. --Ron Chernow n n 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 n n A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. n n 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. n n 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. n n 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.n