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Suspected of Independence - The Life of Thomas McKean, America's First Power Broker (Hardcover)
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Suspected of Independence - The Life of Thomas McKean, America's First Power Broker (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 410
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The last signatory to the Declaration of Independence was one of
the earliest to sign up for the Revolution: Thomas McKean lived a
radical, boisterous, politically intriguing life and was one of the
most influential and enduring of America's Founding Fathers.Present
at almost all of the signature moments on the road to American
nationhood, from the first Continental Congress onward, Thomas
McKean was a colonel in the Continental Army president of the
Continental Congress governor of Pennsylvania and, perhaps most
importantly, chief justice of the new country's most influential
state, Pennsylvania, a foundational influence on American law. His
life uniquely intersected with the many centres of power in the
still-formative country during its most vulnerable years, and shows
the degree of uncertainty that characterized newly independent
America, unsure of its future or its identity.Thomas McKean knew
intimately not only the heroic figures of the Revolutionary
era,George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin
Franklin,but also the fascinating characters who fought over the
political identity of the new country, such as Caesar Rodney,
Francis Hopkinson, and Alexander Dallas. His life reminds us that
America's creation was fraught with dangers and strife,
backstabbing and bar-brawling, courage and stubbornness. McKean's
was an epic ride during utterly momentous times.
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