Alfred Young’s The Shoemaker and the Tea Party shows the reader a different point of view of the American Revolution that is not really written or stated at all in history books we use today in our classrooms. Alfred Young writes about the individuals neglected during the war and also about the events that shaped the start of the Revolution and the United States of America as it is today. Young talks about many issues in his book and a few of the biggest issues that he stresses is about the sugar-coating of true stories and documented facts to make them more appealing, the credibility of historians, and the problems that resulted in the consequences that shaped history. In this story, we meet many people that had to do a lot with