American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

by Harlow Giles Unger

Book Overview

On December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm throughout the colonies.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306819627
• ISBN13: 9780306819629
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Beware… Biases abound

While the core of Unger’s work here is decent, his personal bias against Samuel Adams is quite disdainful when it comes to how historical narrative should be written. While I recognize we all have those we appreciate more than others, this kind of writing cannot be done from that perspective and in that sense Unger fails quite miserably in this work. He also seems to under appreciate economic boycotting prior to the 1773 Tea Party and one could argue that the seeds of revolution were sewn long before December 16, 1773.