TY - BOOK AU - Irvin,Benjamin H. TI - Samuel Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution T2 - Oxford Portraits Series SN - 9780198030300 AV - E302.6.A2 .I785 2002 U1 - 973.3/092 B PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Adams, Samuel,-1722-1803 KW - United States.-Declaration of Independence-Signers-Biography KW - Politicians-United States-Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: THE ELUSIVE SAMUEL ADAMS -- 1 SAMUEL ADAMS'S BOSTON -- 2 RAISED FOR REBELLION -- 3 TIS NOT IN MORTALS TO COMMAND SUCCESS -- 4 SAM THE PUBLICAN AND THE STAMP ACT RIOTS -- 5 MOBS AND MASSACRE -- Citizens and Soldiers -- In a Gore of Blood -- 6 TO SAVE THE COUNTRY -- The Rights of the Colonists -- 7 THE COERCIVE ACTS AND THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS -- 8 IS NOT AMERICA ALREADY INDEPENDENT? -- An Easy, Genteel Figure -- 9 THE STORM IS NOW OVER -- The Marriage State -- No Christian Sparta -- EPILOGUE: SAMUEL ADAMS'S LEGACY -- CHRONOLOGY -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS N2 - The story of one of the most important -- and most elusive -- figures of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams traces the life of the "Man of the Revolution," as he was called by Thomas Jefferson, from his childhood as a fifth-generation New Englander to his pivotal role in the Boston Tea Party and war that followed to a life spent in public service UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5763616 ER -