The story of James Otis, a fiery revolutionary lawyer whose 1761 courtroom oration and 1764 pamphlet laid the intellectual groundwork for American independence, is one of brilliance, tragedy, and forgotten legacy. Though he died before seeing the nation he inspired come into being, his id
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