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Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence and the Men who Signed It
Honorable Treason The Declaration of Independence and the Men who Signed It Author:David Freeman Hawke John Trumbull's famous painting of the signers of the Declaration of Independence hangs in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC. It is a stiffly formal composition which in no way suggests the drama and anguish behind the event it depicts. This timely book takes you behind the scene and gives you firsthand acco... more »unts of the struggles and personal anxietites suffered during the months prior to July 4, 1776.
In a refreshingly candid manner, each of the signers is profiled according to how his contemporaries saw him. The well-known among them are sketched here -- Thomas Jefferson, the penman of the Declaration; John Adams, "the Colossus of the Declaration"; Richard Henry Lee and Samuel Adams, the strategists who guided the Declaration through Congress. But also here are the less-known figures, and from behind their signatures they emerge as distinct and lively personalities.« less