| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
192 pages : portrait ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
A biography of the patriot and politician whose speeches, writings, and activities, including the Boston Tea Party, helped stir up the colonists against Great Britain. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 183-189. |
| Contents |
First in connivance -- Town meeting, with embellishments -- Mr. Grenville calls the turn -- Boston was a talky town -- Sons of Fury -- Answer was brickbats -- Thunderer himself -- Barrier of brine -- Portrait of a comet -- Englishess at its worst -- Coming of the Magnificent Brutes -- Light a powder train -- Blood on the snow -- Uneasy lie the prisoners -- Strange yokefellows -- Tea -- Man with a twinkle in his eye -- Case of the snickering peers -- "That Bainfull Weed" -- Opalescent windrows -- Cannons had big mouths -- Lawn sleeves controversy -- Cantankerous Bostonians -- Die is cast -- Touchy, touchy -- They came with the dawn -- "Storm is over" -- For further reading -- Index. |
| Subject |
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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Statesmen.
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| ISBN |
0840763832 |
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