I'm Christopher Leiden and this is open source on the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

We're face to face almost with an American political type that's gone missing in our third century.

Check this resume.

He's principled, he's prepared.

A two-fisted aristocrat networked with farmers and workers,

a thinker and writer at risk without fear talking ideas and enacting them getting results

He's a man with no interest in money no envy of riches or rank he he's got a Harvard education, but no profession, no real career.

He's a Republican, he'll tell you, who takes self-government seriously and the personal virtues that sustain it. The hero in this

podcast is Samuel Adams of Boston, revived after two and a half centuries by the

magical biographer Stacey Chef.

Thomas Jefferson of Virginia saw Sam Adams as the man who lifted a tax protest up to the launch of a new nation.

A bigger figure even than his second cousin John Adams,

who was the main author of the U.S. Constitution.

Stacey Schiff, in this book, The Revolutionary Samuel Adams, dare I say you've given us a dead white patriarch

for all seasons and incredibly alive for today.

He is a dead white lost patriarch but I also felt as if sometimes the

dead white men can go missing and it was surprising to me that we knew so little

of someone who was hailed by his contemporaries as the prime mover of the revolution.

Yeah, for me he's right about this moment and addressing the uneasiness of the 20-20s,

entirely different from his, but don't you wish

he was available to run in 2024?

Seriously.

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