Samuel Adams: America's revolutionary politician

John K Alexander

Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - Political Science - 249 pages

Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician offers a fresh full-life biography of the man Thomas Jefferson once described as the helmsman of the American Revolution. In his study, historian John K. Alexander uses narrative history to argue that Samuel Adams was both America's first professional politician and its first modern politician. Adams, Alexander argues, was an unwavering politician who strove to protect the people's basic rights and who emphasized the importance of virtue, liberty, a sense of duty, and education in fashioning a republican society. John Alexander's fresh reading of Adams's record, and a uniquely close look into his personal life, uncovers a masterful politician and a man consistent in his beliefs.

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Contents

• II: 1
• III: 19
• IV: 43
• V: 65
• VI: 93
• VII: 127
• VIII: 157
• IX: 173
• X: 191
• XI: 219
• XII: 225
• XIII: 237
• XIV: 249

About the author

John K. Alexander is Professor of History and Distinguished Teaching Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Cincinnati. An associate editor of American National Biography (1999), he is also the author of Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800 (1980), The Selling of the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A History of News Coverage (1990), and Samuel Adams: America’s Revolutionary Politician (2002).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Samuel Adams: America's revolutionary politician; American profiles
• Author: John K Alexander
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
• ISBN: 074252115X, 9780742521155
• Length: 249 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Political Process / Leadership