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PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316441112
ISBN-139780316441117
eBay Product ID (ePID)6057253028
Product Key Features
Book TitleRevolutionary: Samuel Adams
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Political, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorStacy Schiff
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length9.7 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-941865
Reviews"[Schiff's] research is impeccable; no previous writer has scoured the documentary record to such great depth. Moreover, she has mastered the entire history of early New England--from long before to well after the year of the witch-hunt....Indeed, readers may experience her narrative as a virtual tour of the time and place....Schiff's skills as a writer extend to such formal matters as structure, pacing, and point of view...she maintains throughout the authority of an omniscient narrator who is firmly in charge."-- John Demos, The New York Review of Books, "A wildly entertaining exploration of the roots of American political theatre."-- Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "With incomparable wit, grace, and insight, Stacy Schiff narrates the birth of the American Revolution in Boston and the artful, elusive magician who made it all happen: Samuel Adams. For too long, Adams, hiding behind his many masks and stratagems, has evaded historians, but Schiff draws him from the shadows into the spotlight he so richly deserves. A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important. This is a time for Americans to meditate on the fate of their republic and no better place to start than here, at the beginning, with this book."-- Ron Chernow, "A new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning, powerhouse historian Schiff is always an event."-- Booklist, "The inimitable Stacy Schiff, author of utterly captivating books...returns with a biography of one of the most pivotal and oddly neglected of all the U.S. Founding Fathers: Samuel Adams, cousin to the more famous politician (and second president) John. Schiff's book finds the real man behind the Revolutionary mythos."-- Christian Science Monitor, "As in her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Cleopatra , Schiff excels at finding fresh angles on familiar stories, carries out massive research and then weaves it into a dazzling social panorama. In Henry James's phrase from The Art of Fiction, she is a writer on whom nothing is lost....a superb account of the Terror of Salem."-- Elaine Showalter, Washington Post, "Ms. Schiff strips away the accretions of myth that have built up around the Egyptian queen and plucks off the imaginative embroiderings of Shakespeare, Shaw and Elizabeth Taylor. In doing so, she gives us a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, "Every page of The Witches is almost scandalously pleasurable, the phrases rising, cresting and falling like all the best incantations. [Schiff] casts a spell on you." (4 Stars) -- Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today, "Schiff brings to bear a sensibility as different from the Puritans' as can be imagined: gentle, ironic, broadly empathetic, with a keen eye for humor and nuance. Thanks to this, and to Schiff's narrative gifts, the present-day reader flits above New England's smoky chimneys and thatched rooftops... it is wizardry of a sort--in a flash of brimstone, a whole world made wondrously visible."-- The Atlantic, "In her terrific new biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Stacy Schiff presents readers with a vivid sense of this complicated man. Electrifying. . . Schiff writes with keen insight and wit throughout. By the end of The Revolutionary, attentive readers will vibrate with questions about the parallels between Adams' political era and our own."-- BookPage (starred review), "Haunting...the first major commercial nonfiction book on the subject in decades...Ms. Schiff instead delivers an almost novelistic, thrillerlike narrative of those manic nine months. By sidestepping most of the popular theories, The Witches. ..stands out from much of the existing literature."-- The New York Times, "After I put down The Revolutionary : Samuel Adams , I wanted to pick it up and read it over again from the beginning, if only from the pleasure of the prose. . . Read this book if you wish to know how, historically speaking, thirteen English colonies became the United States." -- Robert Knox , Medium.com, "This is a meticulously researched and often eloquent work of historical biography... Schiff offers a welcome, fresh study featuring notions of liberty and democracy that feel particularly relevant in today's consistently tumultuous political landscape."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Schiff's new biography is a good place to start to get one's bearings on this fascinating Founding Father."-- Republican American, "An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J. K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King, and Marina Warner... Schiff's writing is to die for."-- The Times (London), "Schiff masterfully chronicles the myriad twists and turns of Adams's life...[and] understands how to translate even the most knotty history into quick-paced narrative. There is something about Samuel Adams that seems especially compelling today....We forget him and his ideas, it seems to me, at our peril."-- Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe, "Beer drinkers know founding father Sam Adams as a brewer and a patriot; Pulitzer winner Schiff emphasizes a man of action who "muscled words into deeds" in the cause of American independence. Retracing Adams's early years in Boston and his political awakening, Schiff vividly recounts major events in the lead-up to the Revolutionary War, making for a fast-paced and enlightening account."-- Publishers Weekly, Gift Guide, "Revelatory and frequently riveting... Throughout, Schiff vividly recounts major events in the lead-up to the Revolutionary War, including the Stamp Act Crisis, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party, and draws incisive sketches of Loyalist governor Thomas Hutchinson, Patriot lawyer James Otis, and others. Fast-paced and enlightening, this is a must-read for colonial history buffs."-- Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review), "Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down."-- Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal973.3092
SynopsisThis "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, A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times), Top 10 Books of 2022 (Fresh Air), and One of Oprah Daily's Favourite Books of 2022: 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. "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 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.
LC Classification NumberE302.6.A2
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- 29. Okt. 2023
Great Biographic and Historical Read.
If you enjoy reading history; and would like to learn more about our Founding Fathers; this book is for you. I have read many biographies of these great people. Samuel Adams should really be known to all Americans.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 15. Dez. 2023
Sam Adams was indispensable in the forming of this nation.
I pick up anything I see on Sam Adams.He has never gotten the credit he deserves for being instrumental in forming this great nation.He organized behind the scenes and kept the drive for independence on track.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 25. Nov. 2022
In depth story of a key founding father.
Excellent NEW condition, as advertisedBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 15. Aug. 2023
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Good for American history buffsBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 28. Nov. 2025
just what it says
Stacy Schiff is Always Worth ReadingBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 10. Jun. 2023
Everything was great
Everything was greatBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 10. Jun. 2024
all good
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