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Hello and welcome to episode 350 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past

have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covard.

Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence,

the revolution was a movement and protest for more local control of government.

But how did the revolution get started?

Who worked to transform a series of protests into a revolution?

Well this is a big question with no one answer.

One of the Americans who worked largely behind the scenes to warn colonists about imperial overreach

and to foment revolution was a Boston politician named Samuel Adams.

Stacey Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has just published a new biography of Adams,

called The Revolutionary Samuel Adams.

And she joins us so that we can explore and investigate Adams's life

and contributions that turned protest into revolution.

Now during our investigation of Samuel Adams, Stacey reveals what we know about Samuel Adams' life in education.

How Adams made politics his career and his successes and failures in politics.

And some of the work that Adams did to transform protests and debates over imperial taxation

into a revolution for social and political change.

But first, I have some really exciting news to share with you.

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