The Boston Tea Party

by Benjamin Woods Labaree

Published 30 January 1980
" A brilliant and scholarly demonstration of the way a single act of violence can affect the course of history. ... The reasons for the resort to war ... have never been brought into such clear focus as through the lens of this remarkable study." - Julian P. Boyd, editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

"One of the most important books ever written about the origins of the American Revolution."- Journal of American History