Monday again.
Nothing on TV for me tonight. The long summer hiatus is just getting started. We have to keep going until September when the shows come back. For example:
I started watching a miniseries via Amazon called The Sons of Liberty partly because it's Independence Day week, partly because I love the American Revolution, partly because Ryan Eggold is in it.
The thing that pisses me off about stories set during the American Revolution is they always make characters like Samuel Adams very much younger and good looking. The actual Samuel Adams was 53 and John Adams and Paul Revere were 41 in 1776, not a hot-looking radical with abs. The only one his actual age in this miniseries was Ryan Eggold playing Dr. Joseph Warren who was early 30s.
I have been intrigued by the story of Dr. Joseph Warren. I was familiar with the name-ish but didn't remember much. Sadly, he died at Bunker Hill or else his name would have been up there with Washington and Jefferson and the others. He was very instrumental in leading up to the revolution. I started reading a biography of him.
FOUNDING MARTYR: The Life
and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero by Christian Di Spigna
Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna’s definitive new biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of two decades of research and scores of newly unearthed primary-source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna’s thoughtful, judicious retelling not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, it deepens our understanding of the nation’s dramatic beginnings.
Published 2018; 313 pages
I brought the dogs to work today and will the next couple days because of fireworks. I don't think it will be too eventful during the day yet but better safe than sorry.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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