The Men Behind the Legacy - Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Complete Biographies, Speeches, Articles & Historical Records (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Lives, Speeches & DocumentsBy L. Carroll Judson
Length20h 34m
About this audiobook
The Men Behind the Legacy gathers complete biographical sketches, speeches, articles, and historical records concerning the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence. Written in the elevated, moralizing prose characteristic of nineteenth-century patriotic biography, it presents public action and private virtue as inseparable. The volume belongs to a documentary tradition that sought to preserve Revolutionary memory through anecdote, civic example, and archival testimony. L. Carroll Judson was an American compiler and biographical writer whose work reflects the early republic's reverence for founding figures and its desire to instruct later generations through exemplary lives. His interest in the signers emerges from a period when national identity was being consolidated through print culture, commemorative history, and popular education. By assembling lives, documents, and public utterances, Judson helped transform political actors into enduring civic models. This book is recommended to readers seeking more than a general account of independence. Students of American history, rhetoric, political culture, and biography will find it a valuable window into both the Revolutionary generation and the nineteenth-century imagination that memorialized it. Its richest value lies in showing how legacy is constructed: through deeds, words, records, and the interpretive labor of historical remembrance.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length20 hrs 34 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 14, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26WILLIAM WHIPPLE
2PREFACE
27FRANCIS HOPKINSON, Esq.
3Declaration of Independence, BY THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, July 4, MDCCLXXVI
28JOSIAH BARTLETT
4BIOGRAPHY
29ARTHUR MIDDLETON
5THOMAS JEFFERSON
30JAMES WILSON
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6JOHN HANCOCK
31CHARLES CARROLL, OF CARROLLTON
7BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
32WILLIAM WILLIAMS
8ROGER SHERMAN
33SAMUEL HUNTINGTON
9EDWARD RUTLEDGE
34GEORGE WALTON
10THOMAS M’KEAN
35GEORGE CLYMER
11PHILIP LIVINGSTON
36CARTER BRAXTON
12GEORGE WYTHE
37JOHN MORTON
13ABRAHAM CLARK
38RICHARD HENRY LEE
14FRANCIS LEWIS
39STEPHEN HOPKINS
15RICHARD STOCKTON
40ROBERT TREAT PAINE
16SAMUEL ADAMS
41GEORGE TAYLOR
17DR. BENJAMIN RUSH
42FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE
18OLIVER WOLCOTT
43THOMAS STONE
19GEORGE READ
44LEWIS MORRIS
20THOMAS HEYWARD
45JOHN HART
21ROBERT MORRIS
46BUTTON GWINNETT
22JOHN WITHERSPOON
47WILLIAM ELLERY
23THOMAS LYNCH, Jr
48LYMAN HALL
24MATTHEW THORNTON
49JOHN PENN
25WILLIAM FLOYD
50ELBRIDGE GERRY
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