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Samuel Adams : Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Portraits SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198030300
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Samuel AdamsDDC classification:
  • 973.3/092 B
LOC classification:
  • E302.6.A2 .I785 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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