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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
It was hard to get excited to open and read. A dense and difficult read when the content didn't draw me as much as I had wished it would. I have heard great things! It just wasn't for me.
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Detailed biography of a man who avoided personal recognition and left as many holes as he did fabric. Unlike his colleague John Hancock, pamphleteer Samuel Adams kept his handwriting small. Early colonials and revolutionaries considered Adams a stalwart and definitely a rabble -rouser yet Adams managed to erase much of his presence.
As a propagandist, Adams enflamed Bostonians w his sometimes unreliable and often incendiary screeds abt the British, esp Massachusetts governor Hutchinson. He kept energizing the revolutionary movement while claiming he did not favor independence. He and his wife Betsy lived frugally so he could focus on his work.
The political relationship bw the early Americans and the Crown’s appointed governors demonstrates the growing disconnect that would lead the Sons of Liberty and other similar groups to plan the Boston Tea Party.
This book gives personality to historical figures like Paul Revere and Ben Franklin. Mostly, it attempts to figure out who Sam Adams was, given how faint a record he left. It seems that he was all for the cause and did not want personality to factor in. Living into his 80s, he eventually became a relic whose approach was discarded, but continued to serve in govt posts until his death.
I had this on a two week loan and sped through it too quickly. After hearing the author on NPR, I wanted to read her work. This was the available one. I want to read her book on the Salem witch trials. A thorough researcher, Schiff finds the endearing and enervating human traits that make a past era real.
As a propagandist, Adams enflamed Bostonians w his sometimes unreliable and often incendiary screeds abt the British, esp Massachusetts governor Hutchinson. He kept energizing the revolutionary movement while claiming he did not favor independence. He and his wife Betsy lived frugally so he could focus on his work.
The political relationship bw the early Americans and the Crown’s appointed governors demonstrates the growing disconnect that would lead the Sons of Liberty and other similar groups to plan the Boston Tea Party.
This book gives personality to historical figures like Paul Revere and Ben Franklin. Mostly, it attempts to figure out who Sam Adams was, given how faint a record he left. It seems that he was all for the cause and did not want personality to factor in. Living into his 80s, he eventually became a relic whose approach was discarded, but continued to serve in govt posts until his death.
I had this on a two week loan and sped through it too quickly. After hearing the author on NPR, I wanted to read her work. This was the available one. I want to read her book on the Salem witch trials. A thorough researcher, Schiff finds the endearing and enervating human traits that make a past era real.
Good facts, poor writing. This book is nearly unreadable. Where was the editor? There is no flow, it was repeatedly difficult to keep track of which “he" the author was referring to in paragraphs full of pronouns. Reading the book was unsatisfying—like hacking through a jungle. And I failed to get a good sense of the man himself based on the book. As another reviewer put it, this book was written around the man, not about the man.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Samuel Adams was rather the forgotten founder. Almost all of the other noted revolutionaries cite him as the heart and soul of the revolution really interesting man, and this book taught me so much about him.