The old revolutionaries

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The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and The old revolutionaries book Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today.

Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had thir gratest influence in the years between and 4/5(2). “[An] illuminating ‘collective biography’. Vivid insights into these revolutionaries’ lives and time.” —Publishers Weekly The “old revolutionaries” were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll, five men of widely varying backgrounds who played significant roles in the American : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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The “old revolutionaries” were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today.

The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams All Book Search results » About the author () Pauline Maier received her Ph.D.

from Harvard University, then went on to a career as a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Maier wrote two books involving colonial America: "From Resistance.

The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Editions for The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams: (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in Cited by: It’s often said that we tell old stories to get new ones, a truth self-evident in my favorite of Pauline Maier’s many works, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams ().

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