Alfred F. Young is senior research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago and professor emeritus of history at Northern Illinois University. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Anyone interested in the American Revolution must put this at the
top of their reading list. Anyone who believes that revising
history is a suspect activity can begin their reeducation here.
-Gary Nash, author of History on Trial: Culture Wars and the
Teaching of the Past
"Every schoolchild knows (or used to know) about the Boston Tea
Party and its place in American Revolutionary history. But what was
it really like at Griffin's Wharf on that famous night of December
16, 1773, when a band of patriots dumped the cargo of three British
ships into the harbor? In The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, the
historian Alfred F. Young tells the story by recounting the
hitherto-obscure life of George Hewes, a struggling cobbler....The
author makes the turmoil of the Colonial era in New England seem
real and vivid....[A] thoughtful and revealing book." -Herbert
Kupferberg, Parade Magazine
"Significant and engaging....The reader not only receives a
splendid case study in the workings of personal memory more than
160 years ago, but fresh insights into the process whereby
survivors become heroes and patriotic myths are made." -Michael
Kammen, The New England Quarterly
"A wonderful model for anyone trying to reconstruct the life of an
ordinary person involved in extraordinary historical events.
Young's meditation on the construction of memory is extremely
thoughtful and provocative." -Howard Zinn, author of A People's
History of the United States
Anyone interested in the American Revolution must put this at the
top of their reading list. Anyone who believes that revising
history is a suspect activity can begin their reeducation here.
-Gary Nash, author of History on Trial: Culture Wars and the
Teaching of the Past
"Every schoolchild knows (or used to know) about the Boston Tea
Party and its place in American Revolutionary history. But what was
it really like at Griffin's Wharf on that famous night of December
16, 1773, when a band of patriots dumped the cargo of three British
ships into the harbor? In The Shoemaker and the Tea Party,
the historian Alfred F. Young tells the story by recounting the
hitherto-obscure life of George Hewes, a struggling cobbler....The
author makes the turmoil of the Colonial era in New England seem
real and vivid....[A] thoughtful and revealing book." -Herbert
Kupferberg, Parade Magazine
"Significant and engaging....The reader not only receives a
splendid case study in the workings of personal memory more than
160 years ago, but fresh insights into the process whereby
survivors become heroes and patriotic myths are made." -Michael
Kammen, The New England Quarterly
"A wonderful model for anyone trying to reconstruct the life of an
ordinary person involved in extraordinary historical events.
Young's meditation on the construction of memory is extremely
thoughtful and provocative." -Howard Zinn, author of A People's
History of the United States
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