The Seeds of Love...and War: Still Shaggin' for a Shillin' by William E. Johnson

By William E. Johnson

The 12 months is 1769 and the governor of Massachusetts has set sail for England, ousted through the Sons of Liberty. Now Sam Adams and John Hancock flip their cognizance to ridding the streets of Boston of the redcoat infantrymen of the Crown. they're aided by way of Amanda Griffith and her doxies of the comfy Harbor Tavern.

The historic evidence of colonial Boston and the founding fathers i.e. the coffeehouse brawl, attack of Tories, tarring and feathering of tax creditors, killing of younger boys, and the Boston bloodbath are seen in the course of the eyes of bartenders, sailors, universal infantrymen, prostitutes, candle-makers, cobblers and rope-makers.

One reviewer opined that they weren't convinced who is sided they might take after examining this moment novel in a trilogy of pre-revoluitonary Boston.

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