ABSTRACT
Standiford, who built an early reputation as a crime novelist, offered a strict narrative of familiar historical events associated with the American Revolution, but made no attempt to examine who the Sons of Liberty were, what they believed, or how they operated. While the Sons of Liberty primarily focused their energies on resistance to the Stamp Act, there were certainly other issues involved. The Townshend Revenue Acts were approved in June and July 1767, some 15 months after the repeal of the Stamp Act. In time, other Sons of Liberty poems would celebrate Dr. Joseph Warren, the notable Boston Son who would perish at Bunker Hill; the Boston Tea Party; the burning of the Gaspee; and, most famously, Paul Revere's historic ride to Concord. The Tea Act not only revisited the longstanding constitutional issues surrounding the remaining duty on tea but introduced a new element into the discussion: contrived monopolization.
