Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician (American Profiles)
by John K. Alexander
American Profiles
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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, show more liberty, a sense of duty, and education in fashi show lessTags
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John K. Alexander is a professor at the University of Cincinatti where he specializes in American revolutionary-era history.
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- Canonical title
- Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician (American Profiles) (American Profiles)
- People/Characters
- Samuel Adams
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 973.3 — History & geography History of North America United States Revolutionary War (1775-89)
- LCC
- E302.6 .A2 .A54 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Biography (Late eighteenth century)
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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