King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

A concise and highly readable biography…[Hancock’s] legacy is very much worth our remembering. —Wall Street Journal

“King Hancock is a vastly enjoyable work of popular history that wears its impressive scholarship lightly. It deftly explains the wider forces that unraveled the colonists’ close bonds with the mother country… The book also features an almost tactile account of what it was like to live in Boston in the eighteenth century.” —New Criterion

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