Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
by Jean Fritz, Trina Schart Hyman
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Author: Jean Fritz, Trina Schart HymanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09-09
ISBN: 0698114167
Number of pages: 48
Publisher: Puffin
Summary of Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
In early America, when all the men wore ruffled shirts and rode grandly on horseback, one man refused to follow suit. He was the rebel leader Sam Adams, a plainspoken gent who scorned ruffles, refused to ride a horse, and had little regard for the King. This lively biography is a nice, personal look at a leader and his times.
Let the others wear the ruffled shirts and ride grandly on horseback; Sam Adams, Massachusetts rebel leader, was a plain and plain-spoken fellow, both in history and in Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? Adams, it turns out, was horseless for a good reason. On the way to figuring out just what that reason was, the reader gets a nice, personal look at a leader and his times.
In this book, as in the rest of her series of histories, Jean Fritz sneaks plenty of information into her story about Adams, the American Revolution, and the answer to the title question. (For ages 7 and up)
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