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Samuel Adams

James Kendall Hosmer · 1893

A full 1893 scholarly biography of Samuel Adams by James Kendall Hosmer, part of a series on American statesmen.

A scholarly 19th-century biography presenting Samuel Adams as a central leader of the American Revolution.

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James Kendall Hosmer, Samuel Adams, 1893.

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This 1893 book by James Kendall Hosmer, a history professor, is a biography of Samuel Adams as part of the "American Statesmen" series. It was written at the suggestion of Mary Hemenway and covers Adams's life and career.

Why it matters

The book reflects how, over a century after the Revolution, Adams was remembered as a central figure in American independence, with the author quoting earlier historians such as Bancroft who called him "the helmsman of the Revolution."

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