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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
While this book was very interesting - I learned so many things about the man named Samuel Adams - it was a tedious read. I skipped a lot of the superfluous words! I really good book for the avid US historian.
I dunno why, but I find books about the Revolutionary period to just be terminally dull. Gave up on this rather than continuing trying to fight that feeling.
slow-paced
Sam Adams gets the award for most underrated founder. Interesting book with a lot to educate. A little dry at times but worth it.
I listened to the audio of this book and it took a while to get through as it was pretty dry. Samuel Adams destroyed most of his writings so it was less a narrative on who he was, and was more a synopsis of what led to the American Revolution with S. Adams as the touch point.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
An interesting overview of a more overlooked but perhaps integral part of American identity. Not always gripping but never boring
My review is, I think, a bit skewed as I listened to the audiobook and I am discovering that my auditory comprehension is not as strong as my reading! That being said, I thought it was interesting biography of a man I honestly knew nothing about. The narration didn't grip my attention the way other narrative non-fiction I've read did, but I thought Schiff painted an interesting portrait of this indispensable founding father.
This was my Boston book (I read a book set in every city I move to when I move there). It’s a little confusing initially in terms of pacing because Adams was so much older than most of the other Founders, and so much of his life takes place before the war. We love Samuel Adams in this house and this is exactly what I have come to expect from any biography by Stacy Schiff. A+ we love to see it.