Publisher's Synopsis
Now in paperback, a "gripping biography of one of the American Revolution's earliest activists...[that] helps restore to their proper place Joseph Warren's important contributions to our nation's prehistory" (Wall Street Journal) Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, one of the architects of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might one day have led the country like Washington or Jefferson had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. After his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna's definitive biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of over a decade of research and scores of newly unearthed primary source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization, to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna's "marvellously written and well-researched biography...puts Warren on the appropriate historical stage." (Daily Press).
