John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot
- ISBN-10
- 0785820264
- ISBN-13
- 9780785820260
- Series
- John Hancock
- Category
- Massachusetts
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Author
- Harlow Giles Unger
Description
He was a rich, powerful aristocrat, a merchant king who loved English culture and fashion, and, above all, he was a loyal British subject with ambitions of a lordship and a grand retirement estate in England. There simply was no doubt about it: John Hancock was the least likely man in Boston to start a rebellion. How, then, did this Tory patrician become one of the staunchest supporters of the American Revolution?
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