American Tempest

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A tarnished old teapot

AMERICAN TEMPEST:
How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

By Harlow Giles Unger

288 pp. Da Capo

Reviewed by Sue Ellis

The events leading up to the Boston Tea Party are as tarnished as a neglected silver teapot. We've been trying to buff our nation's fight for independence to a sparkle for over two hundred years, but the truth is,