"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. 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"--
