| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. By Alfred F. Young. (Boston: Beacon, 1999. xx, 262 pp. $24.00, isbn 0-8070-7140-4.)

"Gem-like" is one of the highest terms of praise in Alfred F. Young's vocabulary. I have heard him apply it only twice. Almost two decades ago he published a gem-like extended essay called "George Robert Twelves Hewes: A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution" in the William and Mary Quarterly. The essay won that journal's annual best-article prize. Now, as part of an ongoing project about the intertwined themes of revolutionary Boston and historical memory, he has turned that essay into a book. 1

Part 1 of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party reprints the original essay, broken now into twelve short chapters and slightly amended in the light of Young's thinking since 1982. Part 2 considers how the shoemaker Hewes became a living subject of historical memory in his very old age and how the events in which he took part emerged as an iconic part of revolutionary historical imagery. Taking as his subject what ought to have been obvious (but, as so often happens, was not obvious at all), Young notes the more-than-coincidence of the emergence of the term "tea party" to describe the destruction of the East India Company's tea in December 1773 and the emergence of Hewes as one of the party's/destruction's hallowed veterans six decades later. . . .

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