# The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams - Hardcover

by **Stacy Schiff** (Author)

**ONE OF _WALL STREET JOURNAL_'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022  
ONE OF _LOS ANGELES_ _TIMES_ TOP 5 NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022  
ONE OF _THE NEW YORK TIMES_ MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022  
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022  
And named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by _The New Yorker_, TIME, Oprah Daily, USA Today, _New York Magazine_, _Air Mail_, _Boston Globe_, and more!**

"A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important." --Ron Chernow

"A beautifully crafted, invaluable biography...Schiff ingeniously connects the past to our present and future, underscoring the lessons of Adams while reclaiming our nation's self-evident truths at a moment when we seemed to have forgotten them." --Oprah Daily

A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history.

Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A singular figure at a singular moment, Adams amplified the Boston Massacre. He helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party. He employed every tool available to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country. For his efforts he became the most wanted man in America: When Paul Revere rode to Lexington in 1775, it was to warn Samuel Adams that he was about to be arrested for treason.

In _The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams_, Schiff brings her masterful skills to Adams's improbable life, illuminating his transformation from aimless son of a well-off family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the colonies. Arresting, original, and deliriously dramatic, this is a long-overdue chapter in the history of our nation.

### Author Biography

**Stacy Schiff** is the author of _Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)_, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; _Saint-Exupéry_, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; _A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America_, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; _Cleopatra: A Life,_ winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and most recently, _The Witches:_ _Salem, 1692_. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York City.

**Number of Pages:** 432

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 25, 2022

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