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JAYNE E. TRIBER is an independent scholar.
"A fascinating study of the efforts of an ambitious young artisan
who ultimately achieved the status of the gentlemen he had long
admired and so ardently desired to emulate. This is a significant
achievement and enhances our understanding of America's formative
years. Any future analysis of Revere will certainly have to begin
with Triber's work."--American Historical Review
"Well written, extensively researched, and extremely detailed. . .
. This will, no doubt, be the standard biography for years to
come."--Virginia Quarterly Review "Revere will be forever
immortalized by the mythology surrounding his 'ride.' The man
behind the myth was far more interesting, as this informative and
often surprising biography illustrates. . . . Triber is especially
effective in describing the hothouse intellectual and social milieu
of eighteenth-century Boston, which nurtured republicanism. This
work is a worthy addition to any U.S. history
collection."--Booklist "Triber gives us a portrait like John
Singleton Copley's famous leather-aproned image: A proud, ambitious
master craftsman eager for ever-greater prosperity and social
recognition. Early on she proclaims her interest in 'what attracted
Paul Revere to the Revolutionary cause, how [he] interpreted the
republican principles of the Revolution, [and] how those principles
shaped his life after April 19, 1775.' She succeeds admirably in
all those goals."--Journal of American History "Triber's
well-substantiated thesis is that Paul Revere was an excellent
representative of an eighteenth-century artisan/mechanic culture,
which sought, not entirely successfully, to bridge the gap between
artisans and the social and political elite. It is the author's
plausible contention that as a leader of an emerging working class,
Revere, 'a true republican, ' should be considered along with his
more famous elite colleagues as one of the creators of the American
republic. A comprehensive bibliography, index, and numerous
illustrations greatly enhance the value of this long-needed,
full-length biography."--The Historian "The best full biography we
have of Revere."--Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the
American Revolution "Based on extensive work in the papers of
Revere and his contemporaries, as well as in the Boston press, this
book provides a solid, believable picture of Revere. It will become
the first resort for scholars looking for information on Revere and
his connections and will fill an important gap in the literature of
the period. Its clear writing and relative brevity should make it
valuable for classroom use and there should be a broader interest
from general readers."--Steven C. Bullock, author of Revolutionary
Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American
Social Order
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