Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary
- ISBN-10
- 0742570339
- ISBN-13
- 9780742570337
- Series
- Samuel Adams
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 419
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Author
- John K. Alexander
Description
This is a biography of the man Thomas Jefferson once described as the helmsman of the American Revolution. Alexander uses narrative history to argue that Samuel Adams was both America's first professional politician and its first modern politician.
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