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by Stacy Schiff

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This revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores the story of the most essential Founding Father--the one who stood behind the change that sparked the American Revolution.

"A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important." --Ron Chernow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton

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' 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.

"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

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022
One of The Wall Street Journal's "10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022"
One of The Los Angeles Times' "Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2022"
One of The New York Times' "Most Notable 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!

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  • Title The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
  • Author Stacy Schiff
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Publication date 2022-10-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780316441117 / 0316441112
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Politicians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022030727
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2022, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2022, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2022, Page 10
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/29/2022, Page 0

About the author

Stacy Schiff is the author of Vra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York City.

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