Author J. M. Hochstetler Joins KTIS Host Kim Jeffries to Reflect on the Boston Tea Party

Friday, December 16, 2005, at 1:05 p.m. CT, on the 232nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, host Kim Jeffries of radio station KTIS-AM 900 will interview author J. M. Hochstetler. On December 16, 1773, enraged American colonists dumped 342 chests -- 90,000 pounds -- of English tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the British Tea Act authorizing the East India Tea Company to sell a half a million pounds of tea in the American colonies duty free. The effect was to enable the company to undercut the price of any other tea, including what was being illegally smuggled into the colonies by numerous colonial importers.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) December 2, 2005 -- Friday, December 16, 2005, at 1:05 p.m. CT, on the 232nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, host Kim Jeffries of radio station KTIS-AM 900 will interview author J. M. Hochstetler.

On December 16, 1773, enraged American colonists dumped 342 chests -- 90,000 pounds -- of English tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the British Tea Act authorizing the East India Tea Company to sell a half a million pounds of tea in the American colonies duty free. The effect was to enable the company to undercut the price of any other tea, including what was being illegally smuggled into the colonies by numerous colonial importers.

In retaliation for the Americans’ destruction of the tea, Parliament passed what came to be known as the Intolerable Acts, which closed the port of Boston until the tea was paid for, effectively annulled the colony’s charter and shut down their legislative assemblies, and installed a military governor in Boston with troops to enforce compliance. These acts precipitated the forming of the First Continental Congress to consider united colonial resistance to British rule and led directly to the Revolutionary War, which won American independence.

Hochstetler is the author of an acclaimed historical fiction series about the American Revolution. “Most people I talk to view history as a dry, dull recitation of bare-bones facts,” she notes. “The events surrounding the Boston Tea Party are a perfect illustration of the drama, action, and suspense history is full of. Talk about intrigue and putting your life on the line!”

In the painstakingly researched American Patriot Series published by Zondervan, Hochstetler weaves thrilling tales of suspense, intrigue, concealed identities, and romance in which compelling fictional characters interact with the real men and women who played decisive roles in the rebellion.

Book 1, Daughter of Liberty, spans the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord and the carnage of Bunker Hill. The second volume, Native Son, breaks new ground by following the expanding war into Indian country to portray how the conflict between redcoats and rebels wrought havoc on the lives of Native Americans.

Hochstetler is currently hard at work on book 3, Wind of the Spirit. Subsequent books in the series will follow Hochstetler’s fictional characters through the battles raging in the Middle and Southern colonies and on the high seas all the way to the final, decisive assault at Yorktown, which ended the shooting war in a humiliating British surrender on October 19, 1781.

Hochstetler’s Web site, www.jmhochstetler.com, offers a wealth of resources on the colonial and Revolutionary period and a historical newsletter called American Patriot. For more information about the American Patriot Series, or to schedule an interview, contact the author at 615-789-1283 or via e-mail at jmhochstetler@msn.com.

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