Author:
Della Valle, Paul.
Imprint:Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, c2009.
Descriptionviii, 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:Thomas Morton (circa 1574-1647) : the lord of misrule -- Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) : America's first feminist -- Metacom, aka King Philip (1638-1676) : the George Washington of Native Americans -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803) : the MVP (Most Valuable Propagandist) of the New England patriots -- Daniel Shays (1747-1825) : reluctant leader of a little rebellion -- Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) : the patriotic ink-stained wretch -- Deborah Samson (1760-1827) : the official heroine of the Commonwealth fought like a man -- William Miller (1782-1849) : the great disappointer -- Joseph Palmer (1789-1873) : persecuted for wearing the beard -- David Walker (circa 1796-1830) : "Are we men?" -- Horace Mann (1796-1859) : "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity" -- Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) : the voice for the mad -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) : transcendentalist, journalist, and feminist -- Elihu Burritt (1810-1879) : the learned blacksmith -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) : "Live deep and suck out all the marrow of life" -- Lucy Stone (1818-1893) : "A soul as free as the air" -- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) : a woman with a cause -- Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) : "Take the fort or die there" -- James Michael Curley (1874-1958) : Boston's mayor of the poor -- Major Taylor (1878-1932) : the Worcester whirlwind.
