Samuel Adams wasn’t afraid to use misinformation to advance the cause of the American Revolution, writes biographer Stacy Schiff
Had you picked up the Boston Gazette in early December 1768, you might have read a lengthy front-page piece under the byline “Vindex.” Two regiments of British redcoats had marched into Boston that fall, drums beating and flags flying. They were meant to return an unruly town—increasingly resistant to parliamentary efforts at taxation—to order. Vindex warned that the troops were more likely to have the opposite effect.
Two weeks later, on the front page of the Boston Evening Post, “Candidus” delivered a tribute to freedom of the press. There was no better court in which to try those who abused public office. Early in January, “TZ” claimed all of page one to demand why the colonies—settled without expense to the mother country, which benefited handsomely from their trade—should contribute to the national debt. The colonies were not represented in Great Britain.
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