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Author reminds Americans that Samuel Adams was a revolutionary before he was a beer
Maybe it's the company I keep. Over the past few weeks, when I've told friends and neighbors that I've been reading a superb new biography of Samuel Adams, almost everyone has responded by saying ...
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America’s Forgotten Revolutionary Hero Finally Gets His Due
These are qualities familiar to readers of her best-selling, award-winning, really good biographies, the latest of which, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, she spent many months researching at the ...
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Samuel Adams’ founder carried a briefcase full of beer to business meetings before launching his $3 billion empire
The secret to brewing up a $3 billion business idea: a beloved family recipe, a bootstrapped business plan, and a briefcase full of beer. Those are just some of the ingredients Samuel Adams ...
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A closer look at Sam Adams — the patriot and ‘patron saint of late bloomers,’ not the beer
Samuel Adams was, according to a new biography from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, the “patron saint of late bloomers.” In “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” Schiff uses 506 ...