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
39STEPHEN HOPKINS
2PREFACE
40ROBERT TREAT PAINE
3Declaration of Independence, BY THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, July 4, MDCCLXXVI
41GEORGE TAYLOR
4BIOGRAPHY
42FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE
5THOMAS JEFFERSON
43THOMAS STONE
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6JOHN HANCOCK
44LEWIS MORRIS
7BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
45JOHN HART
8ROGER SHERMAN
46BUTTON GWINNETT
9EDWARD RUTLEDGE
47WILLIAM ELLERY
10THOMAS M’KEAN
48LYMAN HALL
11PHILIP LIVINGSTON
49JOHN PENN
12GEORGE WYTHE
50ELBRIDGE GERRY
13ABRAHAM CLARK
51WILLIAM PACA
14FRANCIS LEWIS
52GEORGE ROSS
15RICHARD STOCKTON
53BENJAMIN HARRISON
16SAMUEL ADAMS
54CÆSAR RODNEY
17DR. BENJAMIN RUSH
55SAMUEL CHASE
18OLIVER WOLCOTT
56WILLIAM HOOPER
19GEORGE READ
57THOMAS NELSON
20THOMAS HEYWARD
58JAMES SMITH
21ROBERT MORRIS
59JOSEPH HEWES
22JOHN WITHERSPOON
60JOHN ADAMS
23THOMAS LYNCH, Jr
61GEORGE WASHINGTON
24MATTHEW THORNTON
62PATRICK HENRY
25WILLIAM FLOYD
63WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
26WILLIAM WHIPPLE
64IN CONGRESS, Philadelphia, July 5, 1775. A DECLARATION
27FRANCIS HOPKINSON, Esq.
65ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
28JOSIAH BARTLETT
66CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
29ARTHUR MIDDLETON
67PREAMBLE
30JAMES WILSON
68ARTICLE I Of the Legislature
31CHARLES CARROLL, OF CARROLLTON
69ARTICLE II Of the Executive
32WILLIAM WILLIAMS
70ARTICLE III Of the Judiciary
33SAMUEL HUNTINGTON
71ARTICLE IV Miscellaneous
34GEORGE WALTON
72ARTICLE V Of Amendments
35GEORGE CLYMER
73ARTICLE VI Miscellaneous
36CARTER BRAXTON
74ARTICLE VII Of the Ratification
37JOHN MORTON
75The Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson
38RICHARD HENRY LEE
76Memorable Quotes
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