A review by lauren627
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff

4.0

I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. There’s no doubt it is amazingly researched with so much more info to share about Boston’s lead up to the Revolution than I knew even existed. Because Sam Adams has no remaining diaries, letters etc, it’s not as much a biography of him as a history of this ~15 year period before the Revolution. I thought the narration was quite flat and too hung up on boring minutiae to keep me engaged despite my love of all of the topics covered. Such a missed opportunity for a little more humor and caricature.