{"product_id":"samuel-adams-a-life-9780743299114","title":"Samuel Adams: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this stirring biography  Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers  a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine  and with a passionate love of God  Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolutions darkest hours. He was  as Jefferson later observed  \"truly the man of the Revolution.\"  In a role that many Americans have not fully appreciated until now  Adams played a pivotal role in the events leading up to the bloody confrontation with the British. Believing that God had willed a free American nation  he was among the first patriot leaders to call for independence from England. He was ever the man of action: He saw the opportunity to stir things up after the Boston Massacre and helped plan and instigate the Boston Tea Party  though he did not actually participate in it. A fiery newspaper editor  he railed ceaselessly against \"taxation without representation.\"  In a relentless blizzard of articles and speeches  Adams  a man of New England  argued the urgency of revolution. When the top British general in America  Thomas Gage  offered a general amnesty in June 1775 to all revolutionaries who would lay down their arms  he excepted only two men  John Hancock and Samuel Adams: These two were destined for the gallows. It was this pair  author Ira Stoll argues  whom the British were pursuing in their fateful march on Lexington and Concord.  In the tradition of David McCulloughs John Adams  Joseph Elliss The Founding Brothers  and Walter Isaacsons Benjamin Franklin  Ira Stolls Samuel Adams vividly re-creates a world of ideas and action  reminding us that none of these men of courage knew what we know today: that they would prevail and make history anew.  The idea that especially inspired Adams was religious in nature: He believed that God had intervened on behalf of the United States and would do so as long asits citizens maintained civic virtue. \"We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection \" Adams insisted. A central thesis of this biography is that religion in large part motivated the founding of America.  A gifted young historian and newspaperman  Ira Stoll has written a gripping story about the man who was the revolutions moral conscience. Sure to be discussed widely  this book reminds us who Samuel Adams was  why he has been slighted by history  and why he must be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647613394997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743299116","price":23.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743299114.jpg?v=1781695762","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/samuel-adams-a-life-9780743299114","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}