Samuel Adams, 27 Sep 1722 - 2 Oct 1803 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of David C. Ward Date before 1776 Object number NPG.2010.58 ...

Samuel Adams, whose battle with the British began years before most colonists even thought of independence, was a hunted man. He burned his correspondence. He wrote under pseudonyms.

In The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, Schiff re-introduces readers to the founding father. ... carefully sifts through the remaining materials to build a robust portrait of an important patriot.

Globe Magazine How Samuel Adams became the fearless patriot Britain loved to hate “I doubt whether there is a greater incendiary in the king’s dominions,” sputtered the previous royal ...

The Revolutionary is informed on every page by scholarship, but Schiff, as Adams himself did, knows how to hold an audience. Since Adams was a late bloomer, not coming into his own until his early ...