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William Shirley, King’s Governor of Massachusetts by John A. Schutz, expanded edition

Schutz’s biography follows Shirley’s political and legal career from “spoilsman to imperial administrator” in the decades before the Revolutionary War. He gives readers a glimpse into the ruthless and partisan world of British Imperial politics in the mid-eighteenth century when patronage from the royal court was essential to gaining power but offered no guarantee of political survival.

Printed copies of the limited edition are available for a suggested donation of $20.00 plus $8 shipping and handling. Make your check payable to The Shirley-Eustis House Association and mail it to us at 33 Shirley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 or call 617-442-2275.

Author:             John A. Schutz (1919-2005)

Foreword:         Prof. Robert J. Allison

Essays:               Michael H. Gorn,  William Pencak (1951-2013)

Publisher:         The Shirley-Eustis House Association

Format:             Softcover.  420 pages

Reissue of the classic biography of royal colonial governor William Shirley first published in 1961 for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA by the University of North Carolina Press - Chapel Hill.  Expanded Edition includes genealogy research notes on William Shirley and his family compiled by John Schutz between 1990 and 2005 as well as a foreword, a historiographical essay about the original book and a biographical essay about the late John A. Schutz. 

ISBN: 978-0-578-62583-6

LCCN: 2019920934

Copyright 2020 by The Shirley-Eustis House Association

For more information contact director@shirleyeustishouse.org or call 617-442-2275.

Funding for this reissue was provided by Ralph J. Crandall and Judith Avery. Original copyright was assigned to The Shirley-Eustis House Association in 2014 by John Di Salvo.