With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Samuel Adams supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. As the author of the George Washington Book Prize winner A Great Improvisation recounts, Adams amplified the Boston Massacre and helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party, on his way to becoming the most wanted man in America."With incomparable wit, grace, and insight, Stacy Schiff narrates the birth of the American Revolution in Boston and the artful, elusive magician who made it all happen…. A glorious book that is as entertaining as it is vitally important."—Ron Chernow