She simply tells the truth, and the truth is more real in her telling of it than any legend could be. The legendary Revere, he of the upraised arm and the rearing horse at the farmhouse door, succumbs with surprising ease. Esther Forbes has done well by Paul Revere - the actual Revere, a Boston workman of French descent, cool, canny, successful, the husband of two wives and the father of sixteen children, loving his home and the skill he wrought with his hands, a maker of silver, bells, ships’ bottoms, and artificial teeth.
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