Samuel Adams (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Clifford Lindsey Alderman
- First Published: 1961
- Time of Work: 1722–1803
- Setting: Boston and Philadelphia
- Principal Characters: Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, James Otis, Thomas Hutchinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Cushing, Jr.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, American Revolution, Biography, Propaganda, Congresses or conventions
- Locales: Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA
Form and Content
In Samuel Adams: Son of Liberty, Clifford Alderman depicts the life of Massachusetts Bay’s most exalted advocate of colonists’ rights. In fourteen chapters, only the last of which briefly mentions Adams’ activities after American independence, Alderman details Adams’ contributions to this cause. Yet this book is not a model of clarity; lacking both a table of contents and chapter titles, its chronological organization of material is somewhat confusing. There is a bibliography of limited usefulness and an index.
According to Alderman,...
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