Several Founding Fathers have received the doorstopper-biography treatment ... Wordy Shipmates,” her book on the Puritans. But Samuel Adams (John’s second cousin) has somehow gotten lost ...

If politics is indeed downstream of culture, then the fight brewing over the American Revolution may wind up being more significant than any result from this week’s midterm elections. The debate is ...

18—In many books on the American Revolution, Samuel Adams appears in the years and months leading up to independence, has a major impact ... Schiff's marvelous biography, places Adams squarely ...

As Stacy Schiff makes clear in her masterful new biography “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams” (Little, Brown and Company, 432 pp., ★★★★ out of four, out now), the man now best known for ...

Maybe it's the company I keep. Over the past few weeks, when I've told friends and neighbors that I've been reading a superb new biography of Samuel Adams, almost everyone has responded by saying ...

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His topcoat flaps behind him. A bright moon hangs overhead,” writes Stacy Schiff in her tour de force “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.” When Paul Revere set out on his now-famous midnight ...