Samuel adams

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality, Adam Gopnik writes.

Samuel Adams was a political leader and activist who played a vital role in urging colonial America to break with Britain during the American Revolution.

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Samuel Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution. He later became a controversial figure in American history. Accounts written in the 19th century praised him as someone who had been steering his fellow colonists towards independence long before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. This view caused him to be portrayed as a master of propaganda who provoked mob…

A Massachusetts brewer, propagandist and active revolutionary, Samuel Adams helped organize the Boston Tea Party and foment revolution.

Let me entreat you, my dear Sir, not to think me unmindful of the several Favors I have received from you since I arrived in this City. I hate Protestations among Friends, and the making Apologies is so formal a Business, that I know not in what Manner to begin it. Yet it seems necessary…

Now, in The Revolutionary Samuel Adams, Stacy Schiff brings her masterful skill as historian and storyteller to the life of Samuel Adams...

Samuel Adams from U.S. History Images

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue