In this respect, the subtitle Liberty’s Hero itself suggests the lifelong sense of liberation that Phillips discovered for himself and envisioned for the nation after he had himself claimed to be a literal extension of a past that affirmed these republican values. In a closely related sense, the subtitle Liberty’s Hero also conveys Phillips’ deeply held conception of himself as a heroic republican actor, who replicated the inspired leadership of Sam Adams, Oliver Cromwell, and others. Acting on this radically republican sense of himself Phillips challenged his contemporaries to explore their
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