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The fever of 1721 /

More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan authority and superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coss, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2016]
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Smallpox > Vaccination > History.
Smallpox > Vaccination > United States > History > 18th century.
Medicine > United States > History.
Smallpox > history.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Smallpox Vaccine > history.
History, 18th Century.
Politics.
Boston.
United States.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Table of Contents:
  • Idol of the mob
  • James and Benjamin
  • The fallen angel
  • The most terrible minister of death
  • His Majesty's Ship Seahorse
  • Pestilence and politics
  • Onesimus
  • The experiment
  • Malignant filth
  • America's first independent newspaper
  • The cup which I fear
  • The Hell-Fire Club
  • A man on a cross
  • The deadliest time
  • Honest wags
  • The assassination attempt
  • A death in the house
  • Pointed satyr
  • An epidemic's end
  • Sons of Cato, sons of Calef
  • The invention of Silence Dogood
  • The arrest of James Franklin
  • The printer and his devil
  • Three exits.