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 ...

The latest entrant in this genre is Stacy Schiff’s “The Revolutionary,” a biography of Samuel Adams. Please feel free to discount for the fact that I have a commercial interest here, having written my ...

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 ...

As Stacy Schiff makes clear in her masterful new biography “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams” (Little, Brown and Company, 432 pp., ★★★★ out of four, out now), the man now best known ...

Funkytown Brewery, founded by childhood friends Rich Bloomfield ... benefits and receive support from the Boston Beer Co.'s Samuel Adams brand and its founder Jim Koch. SAMUEL ADAMS FOUNDER ...

His topcoat flaps behind him. A bright moon hangs overhead,” writes Stacy Schiff in her tour de force “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.” When Paul Revere set out on his now-famous midnight ...

His first biography was written by his great-grandson ... carried smallpox and bred a flea-like insect. Samuel Adams lived 81 years; “The Revolutionary” is primarily concerned with 15 of ...