'Any book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Schiff is a reason for excitement. Perhaps even better than he'd want us to.' The Wall Street Journal Samuel Adams 'did not preen for posterity,' but we now know him much better than we did. 'A tour de force.With her exquisite, fast-paced prose.Stacy Schiff has produced a delightfully enthralling and insightful account of an elusive Founding Father. Unreliable rumormongering, slanted news writing, misleading symbolism, even viral meme-sharing – it was all right there at the start.' The New Yorker 'A wildly entertaining exploration of the roots of American political theatre. Through stylish prose and a close reading of Adams's career as a canny propagandist, Schiff suggests that he may have done more than any other founder to prime colonists for armed rebellion and deserves to be better known.' New York Times 'This enthralling biography is a persuasive exercise in rehabilitation. 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 glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important. 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. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.'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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

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