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100 1 $aMcFarland, Philip James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79060093
245 14 $aThe brave Bostonians :$bHutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the coming of the American Revolution /$cPhilip McFarland.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bWestview Press,$c1998.
263 $a9802
300 $ax, 286 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aMost Americans are familiar with the Revolution through its defining moments: the Stamp Act riots, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's ride, the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord. These were events fueled by the anger of an array of Bostonians in search of liberty and justice for an American cause. As a legacy of the Revolution, their heroic tales have intimately defined our consciousness as Americans and the sense of history we carry with us today.
520 8 $aBut there is another side to the story, a story of Bostonians equally brave and as intensely devoted to liberty and justice, who watched with horror as their homes were pillaged, their reputations destroyed, and their lives torn apart. They were the losers, far more deeply than Britain, King George, or a host of British redcoats.
520 8 $aIn The Brave Bostonians, novelist and historian Philip McFarland traces both sides through the intertwined lives of three native, and eminently respected, Bostonians during the turbulent year preceding the Revolution. Thomas Hutchinson, the last civilian governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, stands as the centerpiece of the story.
520 8 $aUnfalteringly loyal to British law and order and far from home as an exile in London, he could only agonize over letters and newspaper headlines as his beloved Boston burst apart at the seams. Josiah Quincy, an archpatriot and feverish enemy of Hutchinson's loyalism, drove himself to his own tubercular death in pursuit of the colony's independence. And Benjamin Franklin, the venerable diplomat, scientist, and devoted Anglophile, fought with considerable skill to hold the British Empire together before conceding at last to declare himself heart and soul an American. These three men, each fiercely loyal in his own way to Boston and America, stood in separate corners of the conflict.
520 8 $aAnd each found his own fate.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xCauses.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140149
600 10 $aHutchinson, Thomas,$d1711-1780.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054623
600 10 $aFranklin, Benjamin,$d1706-1790.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402
600 10 $aQuincy, Josiah,$d1744-1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85221129
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140411
651 0 $aBoston (Mass.)$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015937
852 00 $bglx$hE210$i.M15 1998