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...Gladwell tells us that Revere was a first-rate agent of contamination. On good historical evidence he was a classic networker, one of those barroom backslappers who belonged to half the organizations in colonial Boston. Not Dawes. On the night of his ride, Revere would have known just which anti-Royalists to alert along the road. Dawes, who may never have clanked a tankard with anybody, would have been clueless...