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Stacy Schiff's biography of Samuel Adams, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
is a milestone in Revolutionary-era biographies, and introduces a complex and engaging political character--his main focus was liberty, and he learned how to shape a revolutionary movement to secure it. Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff--born in the town of Adams, Massachusetts tells us about the Samuel Adams we thought we knew, and the one we should know.
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Stacy Schiff's biography of Samuel Adams, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
is a milestone in Revolutionary-era biographies, and introduces a complex and engaging political character--his main focus was liberty, and he learned how to shape a revolutionary movement to secure it. Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff--born in the town of Adams, Massachusetts tells us about the Samuel Adams we thought we knew, and the one we should know.
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