![]() ![]() The result is a richly detailed account of an eighteenthcentury tradesman's life. The author dutifully chronicles the events of the shoemaker's life-his apprenticeship at a young age, his attempt to join the military (which failed because he didn't meet the height requirement), his shoemaking business, and later his presence at the Boston Massacre and participation in the Boston Tea Party. Young was drawn to Hewes for practical reasons: An inordinately large amount of print material about him has survived. And how did taking action affect Hewes's life? And more generally, why has Hewes been granted a place in history when the majority of his peers have been forgotten? What led a poor shoemaker to venture into the political arena at such a tumultuous time? Young asks. Young seeks to illuminate the American Revolution by examining the life of George Robert Twelves Hewes, a rank-and-file tradesman whose name appears with peculiar frequency in early American documents. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, by Alfred F. ![]()
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