Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-2115-5 • Paperback • January 2004 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4616-4278-7 • eBook • January 2004 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
John K. Alexander is professor at the University of Cincinnati where he specializes in American revolutionary era history. Along with a number of scholarly articles, he has authored Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760–1800.
Chapter 1: The Failure of Promise
Chapter 2: The People Shall Be Heard
Chapter 3: The Lurking Serpent
Chapter 4: The Politics of Principle
Chapter 5: The Chief Incendiary
Chapter 6: The Helmsman of American Independence
Chapter 7: "Zealous in the Great Cause": Winning Independence
Chapter 8: "The Principles of Liberty": The Massachusetts Scene
Chapter 9: “The Consistent Republican”
Epilogue: “The Patriarch of Liberty”
This is a deep, solid, well researched, and highly readable work of history. I am particularly impressed by Alexander's contribution to the history of the Boston 'mob' in the American Revolution. Criticizing the 'myopic' views of those at the time (as well as more recent scholars) who saw the crowd as manipulated and propagandized by Adams, he gives due credit to Adams's role while nonetheless presenting us with a crowd with agency and a mind of its own.
— Jesse Lemisch, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
John K. Alexander has written an intelligent, thoughtful, and concise biography of one of the most important leaders of the revolutionary generation.
— Richard E. Ellis, SUNY Buffalo, author of The Jeffersonian Crisis and The Union at Risk
It is chock full of original research and fresh observations on moments in Massachusetts's revolutionary struggle.
— Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
A sparkling biography of a street-level politician who battled in the trenches for the American Revolution.
— Paul Green, director of policy studies, Roosevelt University