| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 25cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- No turning back -- Childhood hamlet -- The Harvard years -- Speckled monster -- New beginnings -- Acts of violence -- Unsheath thy quill -- From red fields to crimson cobblestones -- A time to mourn -- A bitter crew -- Resolved -- Joseph Warren's ride -- Hill of lamentations -- Founding mourners -- Epilogue -- Warren's legacy. |
| Summary |
Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. |
| Subject |
Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775.
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Soldiers -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
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Physicians -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- General.
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Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
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Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780553419320 (hardcover) |
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0553419323 (hardcover) |
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9780553419344 (paperback) |
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055341934X (paperback) |
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