Samuel Adams

Excerpt from Samuel AdamsDuring the thirteen years since the publication of this life of Samuel Adams, which is at the same time a study of the New England town meet ing at its most interesting period, the author has written three books on subjects closely relating to this, a Short History of anglo-saxon Freedom 1 a Life of Young Sir Henry Vane,2 which is at the same time a study of the English Commonwealth; and a Life of Thomas Hutchinson,3 royal governor of Massachusetts Bay, which is but another study of the New England Revolutionary conditions, with another personality than Samuel Adams in the foreground. While at the outset no connected series was projected, each book grew naturally out of its predecessor: the four stand, in fact, together, forming a consideration of the polity of the Eng lish-speaking race. The student whom this book may have attracted will possibly be interested to turn to its fellows. The anglo-saxon Freedom sketches the long evolution from the primitive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.