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Minds and Hearts - The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren (Hardcover)
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Minds and Hearts - The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren (Hardcover)
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As a firebrand attorney and political agitator, James Otis Jr.
helped to shape colonial resistance in the decades leading up to
the American Revolution, establishing individual rights and 'no
taxation without representation' as cornerstones of the patriot
cause. After his violent coffeehouse altercation and bouts with
mental illness, his younger sister, Mercy Otis Warren, took up his
cause. Her incendiary plays and poems rallied colonial opinion in
the lead-up to the war, and her chronicle of the period established
her as America's first female historian. Minds and Hearts is the
dual biography of these remarkable siblings, placing James and
Mercy in the spotlight together for the first time, amid the rush
of events, competing ideologies, and changing social conditions of
eighteenth-century America. Jeffrey H. Hacker crafts a compelling
narrative that focuses on the Otises' unique and dramatic
relationship and traces their impact on the Revolutionary movement
in Massachusetts. If the real American Revolution took place 'in
the minds and hearts of the people,' as John Adams claimed, then
the Otises were among the nation's true patriots.
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