American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution / Nina Sankovitch.
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- ISBN: 9781250163288
- ISBN: 1250163285
- Physical Description: viii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: Tinder (1744-1764) -- Prologue: A Village Mourns -- Founding a Village -- The Education of Boys -- Worldly Goods, Heavenly Debates -- The Education of Girls -- Changing Fortunes -- Colonial Enthusiasms -- Part two: Spark (1765-1773) -- The Mobs of Boston -- Warmest Lovers of Liberty -- A Watchful Spirit -- The Arrival of Troops -- Portents of a Comet -- Pressing Forward -- Mayhem and Massacre -- On Trial -- Retreat to Braintree -- Patriots Assemble -- Branching Out -- Anxiety and Apprehensions -- Tea, That Baneful Weed -- Part three: Flame (1774-1776) -- Rocks and Quicksands on Every Side -- Punishment and Indignation -- Grand Object of Their View -- In the Cause of Liberty -- On This Island, This England -- Sharpening Quills and Swords -- Ship in a Storm -- Lexington and Concord -- Clouds over Boston -- The Unhappy Contest -- Complications of Evil and Misfortune -- Surrender of Boston -- Debating Separation -- The Signature of Independence -- Epilogue: Friends to Mankind. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 974.47 S227a 2020 (Text) | 33126024348629 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/10/2024 |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2020 January
Sankovitch (
Copyright 2020 Library Journal.The Lowells of Massachusetts ) follows the lives of sons and daughters of the Adams, Quincy, and Hancock families from colonial Braintree, MA, who became influential rebels (and some loyalists). She claims that the common heritage of John Adams, John Hancock, and Josiah Quincy, Jr. (most notably) instilled in their offspring an indomitable sense of duty to community and devotion to liberty. Friends as youths, their lives intertwined in adulthood. Inspired by their independent-thinking forebears, especially the Rev. John Hancock Sr., they had intellect, courage, weaknesses, diplomacy, and indefatigable faith in freedom and self-determination. All of it drove them to resist the British imposition of taxes and punitive measures, and, ultimately, to galvanize inter-colonial support for American independence. Sankovitch highlights the significant impact of Braintree daughters and wives Abigail Smith Adams and Dorothy (Quincy) Hancock, among others, who shared their husbands' beliefs, influenced their work, and endured their trials; she includes the challenges of loyalists Samuel Quincy and Jonathan Sewell (husband of Esther Quincy and close friend to John Adams).VERDICT Sankovitch has woven a compelling, potent chronicle of members of three principal American families that will be valued by readers of American history at all levels.âMargaret Kappanadze, Elmira Coll. Lib., NY