As a firebrand attorney and political agitator, James Otis Jr.
Hacker is an independent scholar and writer based in Durham, North Carolina..
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If the real American Revolution took place in the Minds and hearts of the people, as John Adams claimed, then the Otises were among the nation\'s true patriots.
Hacker crafts a compelling narrative that focuses on the Otises\' unique and dramatic relationship and traces their impact on the Revolutionary movement in Massachusetts.
Jeffrey H.
Minds and Hearts is the dual biography of these remarkable siblings, placing James and Mercy in the spotlight together for the first time, amid the rush of events, competing ideologies, and changing social conditions of eighteenth-century America.
Her incendiary plays and poems rallied colonial opinion in the lead-up to the war, and her chronicle of the period established her as America\'s first female historian.
After his violent coffeehouse altercation and bouts with mental illness, his younger sister, Mercy Otis Warren, took up his cause. helped to shape colonial resistance in the decades leading up to the American Revolution, establishing individual rights and no taxation without representation as cornerstones of the patriot cause.
As a firebrand attorney and political agitator, James Otis Jr
