This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential
Founding Father (Ron Chernow)—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. 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
