John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger intergenerational and dining in a charming

and dining in a charming corner of Normandy

--Emma Thompson

en route to Africa

exuberant prose

John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger intergenerational and dining in a charming* In a biography awash in early American history, Unger celebrates the career of John Hancock, whose life was as large as his legendary signature. A successful merchant and 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