Boston, 1776 A Rogue Tour of Revolution City By J. D. Dickey

Forget the powdered wigs and genteel tea parties of your old history textbooks. This is Boston as it really was in 1776—chaotic, dangerous, and roaring with life.

Acclaimed historian J.D. Dickey plays the role of your personal guide, leading you down the turbulent streets, into the tub-thumping taverns, and through the radical strongholds of a town at war with an empire. Welcome to Revolution City, where the air smells of tar, booze, gunpowder . . . and rebellion.

Along the way, you’ll linger in taprooms where rebel plots were hatched. Stand near the hacked-up remains of the Liberty Tree. Watch mobs rise up over the price of bread, cheer as Loyalists get tarred-and-feathered, and gaze up at John Hancock’s mansion gleaming above the gritty streets below.

What makes this tour so special? You’ll meet the familiar faces—your Reveres and your Adamses—but also the forgotten men and women who bled and brawled for freedom in every corner of the city. It’s a fuller, rawer, more human picture of the Revolution.

Published in honor of America’s 250th anniversary, Boston, 1776 portrays the Cradle of Liberty as never before: raw, radical, and gloriously alive.

For those of us here in New England, this one hits especially close to home. It’s the perfect companion for a rainy afternoon by the cove—or for anyone planning a wander through the very streets Dickey brings back to life.

Pull up a chair. History has rarely felt this vivid.

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