Table of Contents
Part 1 "Those Who Fail To Learn From History Are Doomed To Repeat It" 1
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 "To the Men Who Did What Was Considered Wrong in Order to Do What They Knew Was Right!" 19
Chapter 2 How American History Actually Happened 23
Chapter 3 The Declaration of Independence…in its Own Words 40
Part 2 Profiles Of The 56 Signers 49
Author's Note 51
Chapter 4 Richard Henry Lee 53
Chapter 5 Thomas Jefferson 64
Chapter 6 John Hancock 73
Chapter 7 Benjamin Franklin 85
Chapter 8 John Adams 101
Chapter 9 Robert R. Livingston 109
Chapter 10 Roger Sherman 112
Chapter 11 Samuel Adams 115
Chapter 12 Button Gwinnett 124
Chapter 13 Lyman Hall 128
Chapter 14 George Walton 131
Chapter 15 William Hooper 134
Chapter 16 Joseph Hewes 138
Chapter 17 John Penn 143
Chapter 18 Edward Rutledge 146
Chapter 19 Thomas Heyward Jr. 151
Chapter 20 Thomas Lynch Jr. 154
Chapter 21 Arthur Middleton 157
Chapter 22 Samuel Chase 160
Chapter 23 William Paca 165
Chapter 24 Thomas Stone 170
Chapter 25 Charles Carroll 173
Chapter 26 George Wythe 177
Chapter 27 Benjamin Harrison 181
Chapter 28 Thomas Nelson Jr. 185
Chapter 29 Francis Lightfoot Lee 188
Chapter 30 Carter Braxton 191
Chapter 31 Robert Morris 195
Chapter 32 Benjamin Rush 199
Chapter 33 John Morton 204
Chapter 34 George Clymer 207
Chapter 35 James Smith 211
Chapter 36 George Taylor 214
Chapter 37 James Wilson 217
Chapter 38 George Ross 220
Chapter 39 Caesar Rodney 223
Chapter 40 George Read 226
Chapter 41 Thomas McKean 230
Chapter 42 William Floyd 233
Chapter 43 Philip Livingston 236
Chapter 44 Francis Lewis 239
Chapter 45 Lewis Morris 242
Chapter 46 Richard Stockton 245
Chapter 47 John Witherspoon 248
Chapter 48 Francis Hopkinson 254
Chapter 49 John Hart 259
Chapter 50 Abraham Clark 262
Chapter 51 Josiah Bartlett 265
Chapter 52 William Whipple 268
Chapter 53 Robert Treat Paine 271
Chapter 54 Elbridge Gerry 276
Chapter 55 Stephen Hopkins 279
Chapter 56 William Ellery 282
Chapter 57 Samuel Huntington 285
Chapter 58 William Williams 288
Chapter 59 Oliver Wolcott 291
Chapter 60 Matthew Thornton 294
Chapter 61 Quotes by the Signers to Live, Fight, and Survive By 298
Afterword 303
Acknowledgments 309
Endnotes 311
