American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

On Thursday December an estimated seven dozen men many dressed as Indians dumped roughly worth of tea in Boston Harbor Whatever their motives at the time they unleashed a social political and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years laterThe Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities as tea parties erupted up and down the colonies The turmoil stripped tens of thousands of their homes and property and nearly left forever in what was historys largest exodus of Americans from America Nonetheless John Adams called the Boston Tea Party nothing short of magnificent saying that it must have important consequencesCombining stellar scholarship with action-packed history Harlow Giles Unger reveals the truth behind the legendary event and examines its lasting consequence--the spawning of a new independent nation.