Show 0 1 1 1 IN f RAPS AMERICAN HEROES james 11 stark historian in hla his book tho the loyalists of massachusetts find and the other side of tho the american Il revolution evolution calmly tears the halos from tho the heads beads of the ancestors of many of massachusetts first families who pride themselves on their honorable lineage the book Is a 0 most damaging document to tho the cause of the sons of the revolution and other kindred boci soci aties and one of the boldest statements concerning the real lives of some of the foremost men of revolutionary days in a chapter devoted to ta the causes of the revolution the author states in Virgi virginia bla the revolutionary movement of them the poor whites or crackers led by patrick henry was against the planter ailsto allsto cracy it was only very slowly and very deliberately that washington identified himself with the cause patrick henry was one of the most unreliable men living according to historian stark ile he had been successively a storekeeper a farmer and a shopkeeper but he failed in all these pursuits and became a bankrupt at 23 declares the luthor then he studied law a few weeks wet ks and practiced a few years finally embarked he hel on the stormy sea of politics one day he worked himself into a tine fine frenzy and in a most dramatic manner demanded liberty or death although he had bad both freely at his disposal john adams joined the probably because he saw that it if the revolution was successful there would be great opportunity for advancement under the new government this proved to be the case th the author by quoting from a letter leer which adams wrote shows boston that at adams was a defaulter and did not make proper return of taxes and that his sureties had to pay about |