"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan authority, and auperstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776, ... [examining] the smallpox epidemic of 1721 [that] was the catalyst for the invention of American journalism, the coming-of-age of Benjamin Franklin, and the beginning of American independence"--
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"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan authority, and auperstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776, ... [examining] the smallpox epidemic of 1721 [that] was the catalyst for the invention of American journalism, the coming-of-age of Benjamin Franklin, and the beginning of American independence"--
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