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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere. By Jayne E. Triber. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. xii, 314 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-55849-139-2.)

Since the publication of Alfred F. Young's widely anthologized article "George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution" in the October 1981 William and Mary Quarterly, Paul Revere seemed momentarily displaced from his traditional status as Boston's most famed artisan-patriot. The publication of two recent books, David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride (1994) and Jayne E. Triber's True Republican, has helped restore some luster to the silversmith's renown. Of the two authors, Triber is more successful prying the actual historical figure out from beneath the dead weight of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's verse. . . .

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