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"PRAISE FOR HARLOW Giles UNGER'S NOAH WEBSTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN PATRIOT ""Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans.""-Washington Times ""Superb biography...Don't miss this stirring book."" -Florence King, The American Spectator"

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Author:   Harlow Giles Unger
Publisher:   Turner Publishing Company
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.738kg
ISBN:  

9780471332091

ISBN 10:   0471332097
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Boy on Beacon Hill (1737-1750). The Merchant King (1724-1750). The Merchant Prince (1750-1764). Of Stamps and Taxes (1764-1765). Mad Rant and Porterly Reviling (1765). A Hero by Circumstance (1765-1768). Idol of the Mob (1768-1770). Tea in a Trice (1770-1773). High Treason (1774-1775). President of Congress (1775-1776). Founding Father (1776). President of the United States (1776-1777). A Model Major General (1777-1780). His Excellency the Governor (1780-1785). Hancock! Hancock! Even to the End (1785-1793). Epilogue. Notes. Selected Bibliography of Principal Sources. Index.

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In a biography awash in early American history, Unger celebrates the career of John<br> Hancock, whose life was as large as his legendary signature. A successful merchant and<br> accomplished politician, Hancock became the first signatory of the Declaration of Independence by virtue of his election as president of the Continental Congress. And when he served as a delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787, it was his suggestion to entertain amendments to the proposed Constitution that later became the basis for the Bill of Rights. Hancock lived at the center of late 18th-century Boston politics and commerce, and his life is an engaging prism through which to view Revolutionary New England. Unger, a journalist and a biographer of Noah Webster, effectively uses letters, newspaper articles and first-hand accounts by Hancock and other preeminent Americans to make immediate the events and controversies--the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party--that culminated in the Revolut

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Harlow Giles Unger is author of Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot. A veteran journalist, he was a news editor at the New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service, and foreign news correspondent for the Times (London). He lives in New York City and Paris.

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