A Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Stacy Schiff knows how to weave a story.
In Samuel Adams, she brings all her power as a writer to bear on the life of an often overlooked and misunderstood figure of the American Revolution. In this work, Schiff brings Adams and eighteenth-century Boston to life.
Through meticulous research, she uncovers Adams’ motivations, family dynamics, and revolutionary fervor, allowing her to understand Adams’ character in a way other historians haven’t.
Her fantastic ability as a writer also painted a vivid picture of the colonial city in which he lived, highlighting the importance of this port city to revolutionary cause.
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history.
Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A singular figure at a singular moment, Adams amplified the Boston Massacre. He helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party. He employed every tool available to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of…
Jay Dolin is a lifelong lover of the sea and all things naval history, and it shows!
Rebels at Sea is the fascinating tale of how Americans outfitted privateers during the American Revolution in order to undermine British naval supremacy. This was a story from the American Revolution that I had never heard before and it shed new light on both that conflict and period for me.
I was truly enraptured by the pluck of the rebelling colonists who outfitted merchant ships with cannons and everyday sailors who turned themselves into a makeshift navy. It truly gave a whole new angle on the ragtag nature of the revolution’s early years.
The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the American Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of the country's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos.
In Rebels at Sea, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission and contends that privateers, though often seen as profiteers at best and pirates at worst, were in fact critical to the American Revolution's outcome. Armed with cannons, swivel guns, muskets and pikes-as…
I was acquainted with the story of John Adams’s and Abigail Adams’s time apart while John served as a minister for the American colonies in Europe.
It’s an inspiring love story that these two people, separated by an ocean, were able to keep their love alive through letters alone! But Abrams’s book was the first work I have found dedicated entirely to this long distance relationship.
Through in-depth research and lively prose, Abrams brings the pain of separation that both Adamses felt during these years apart, while expertly showing how they each found the resolve to contribute to the American Revolution nonetheless.
Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American
From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784, the two shared rich encounters with famous heads of the European royal courts, including the ill-fated King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the staid British Monarchs King George III and Queen Charlotte.
In this engaging narrative, A View from Abroad takes us on the first full exploration of the Adams's lives abroad. Jeanne E. Abrams…
I started East India Blogging Co. out of my interest in and passion for the history of the Atlantic World. Topics like the history of the American Revolution, Nation Nations, and colonies have always fascinated me, and the Atlantic World helps us understand how these factors came together to produce the world around us.
In the years since I've expanded into more tangential topics and begun writing book reviews to help connect people with great history books.
