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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello and welcome to Ben Franklin's World Revisited,

a series of classic episodes that bring fresh perspectives to our latest episodes

and had deeper connections to our understanding of early American history.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

This month, we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord,

the shot heard round the world that ignited the Revolutionary War.

But before those battles, and before the Revolution became a war for independence,

the Revolution was a movement for independence, the revolution

was a movement, a fight to secure more local control over government.

And no one worked harder to transform that movement into a revolution than Samuel Adams.

A skilled political strategist and master of revolutionary rhetoric, Samuel Adams was instrumental

in shaping colonial resistance

and uniting the American colonies in opposition to British rule. But how did he do it? How did he

turn protest into a revolution? To help us investigate, we're revisiting our conversation from

episode 350 with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Stacey Schiff, author of the revolutionary

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