In “Founding Martyr,” Christian Di Spigna has produced a gripping biography of one of the American Revolution’s earliest activists. Mr. Di Spigna’s Boston is a rough place, with violence on all sides and a growing suspicion of British rule. It wasn’t until the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill that the insurgency became an open rebellion. He came to the cause, Mr. Di Spigna convincingly argues, through a combination of moral conviction and personal motivation. “Founding Martyr” helps restore to their proper place Joseph Warren’s important contributions to our nation’s prehistory.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 30, 2018 17:37 UTC