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
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.
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.
