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- Rebels, Reformers, And Radicals From The Bay State
- Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State by Paul Della Valle
- Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State
- Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State
This book contains 20 chapters, each a short over view of the lives of particularly revolutionary figures who call Massachusetts home.
Rebels, Reformers, And Radicals From The Bay State
The book is written by Paul Della Valle, a newspaper journalist. The book reads as such in an accessible manner, and would be perfect for vacation reading.
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The only thing that is particularly annoying is his obvious self righteous animosity towards Puritan culture, and the South, particularly during the Civil War. The Civil War was a multi faceted conflict, the is This book contains 20 chapters, each a short over view of the lives of particularly revolutionary figures who call Massachusetts home. The Civil War was a multi faceted conflict, the issues of which are still being dealt with so that is almost permissible. However his attitude towards Puritans is obnoxious.
Even if I agree with him, it leaves one with the impression that his study of that era was confined to the mockeries and jokes that others have made of them. He needs to lose the air of superiority that he affects over both, but particularly with the Puritans.
Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State by Paul Della Valle
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From the famous figures to the obscure, from the patriot Sam Adams to bearded Joe Palmer, the twenty men and women profiled in this collection of historical biographies all dared to advocate for some form of freedom, some measure of liberty.
Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas proved that indeed the pen is mightier than the sword. In the same conflict, Deborah Samson so believed in America that she masqueraded as a man to join the struggle against the British. In , Margaret Fuller published a book that later seen as an early blueprint for the women's rights movement. In Massachusetts Troublemakers , Paul Della Valle brings these characters to life with colorful tales of rabble-rousing and pot-stirring, a little bit of dancing and drinking, and even a bicycle race, all complemented by twenty black-and-white archival photos.
Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State
Massachusetts native Paul Della Valle is a life-long journalist. He has been a general assignment reporter, investigative reporter, editor and publisher, and his work has won dozens of wards from the Associated Press, United Press International, and the New England Press Association.
Della Valle joined the staff of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette in and was promoted to featured columnist in He became editor of Worcester Magazine in He has also served as a Central Massachusetts correspondent for the Boston Globe, and his work has appeared in Readers Digest and several of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books. His awards have included being named Columnist of the Year twice and best humor columnist once by the New England Press Association, and a first-place citation for feature writing in the largest newspaper division from the New England Associated Press.
His story on candlepin bowling in Massachusetts and the role of Central Massachusetts men at the Civil War's Battle of Ball's Bluff won awards for history reporting from the New England Press Association in and He sings, plays guitar, and writes songs for the Worcester County Bluegrass All Stars, who have recorded two albums. Della Valle lives with his wife, Karen Sharpe, a poet and journalist, and their children on an old farm in Sterling, Massachusetts.
Copies will arrive soon. Introduction Thomas Morton He paid a heavy price — exile — thrice but was unbowed.
Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State
She and all of her children except for one later died in an Indian attack. His father had been the Pilgrims' friend, but the early colonists mistreated his people and probably killed his brother, so Metacomet led the New England Indians in the most brutal and costly war, relative to population, in American history. King Philip, as the whites called him, was so hated by the colonists that, after he was killed, they placed his head on a pole in Plymouth and left it there for 25 years.
Surprisingly, his brewery was a financial disaster and his greatest accomplishment may have been a little tea party he and some friends threw for the British.
He didn't achieve the presidency as his cousin John Adams did, although he did serve as governor. The British reviled Sam Adams — only he and John Hancock were exempted from a general amnesty offered to the Massachusetts rebels in In , this Revolutionary War captain led disgruntled western Massachusetts farmers in America 's first civil war. The uprising didn't last long and few were killed but it did make a mark. A Boston native, Thomas began publishing the Massachusetts Spy to rally support for the cause of independence.
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