The Baleful Comet of Boston: Samuel Adams & the Puritan Republic – The Imaginative Conservative

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Dr. Bob Cundiff

By M. E. Bradford

Samuel Adams believed that men are ruled more by fear or other emotions than by reason.

And Sam Adams knew how to generate anger and fear.

Thus he kept up the flow of propaganda that followed from the town’s versions of what had happened in the Boston Massacre…

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