Who's Your Founding Father? One Man's Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence
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David Fleming
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- 9780306828775
- 16 mei 2023
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David Fleming
David Fleming lives in the woods in Weston, Massachusetts, with his wife and two willful, boisterous sons. He graduated from Wheaton College with a degree in English dramatic literature and theater and now works for a landscape designer. When the ground is frozen, he writes. He has been published in
Monkeybicycle,
Stuff Magazine, and
Wellesley/Weston Magazine and at beattoapulp.com.
The Saturday Boy is his first novel.
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A centuries-old secret document might unravel the origin story of America and reveal the intellectual crime of the millennia in this epic dive into our countrys history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence.
In 1819 John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register that he breathlessly described to his political frenemy Thomas Jefferson as one of the greatest curiosities and one of the deepest mysteries that ever occurred to me entitled the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The genuine sense of America at that moment was never so well expressed before, nor since. The story claimed that a full 14 months before Jefferson crafted his own Declaration of Independence, a misfit band of zealous Scots-Irish patriots, whiskey-loving Princeton scholars and a fanatical frontier preacher in a remote corner of North Carolina had become the first Americans to formally declare themselves free and independent from England.Composed during a clandestine all-night session inside the Charlotte courthouse, the Mecklenburg Declaration was signed on May 20, 1775a date thats still featured on the state flag of North Carolina. A year later, in 1776, Jefferson is believed to have plagiarized the MecDec while composing his own, slightly more famous Declaration and then, as he was wont to do, covered the whole thing up. Which is exactly why Adams always insisted the MecDec needed to be thoroughly investigated and more universally made known to the present and future generation. Eleven U.S. Presidents and many of todays most respected historical scholars agree.
Now, with Whos Your Founding Father?, David Fleming picks up where Adams left off, leaving no archive, no cemetery, no bizarre clue or wild character (and definitely no Dunkin Donuts) unexplored while traveling the globe to bring to life one of the most fantastic, importantand controversialstories in American history.In 1819 John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register. He breathlessly described it to his political frenemy Thomas Jefferson as one of the greatest curiosities and one of the deepest mysteries that ever occurred to me entitled the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The genuine sense of America at that moment was never so well expressed before, nor since. The story claimed that a full 14 months before Jefferson crafted his own Declaration of Independence, a misfit band of zealous Scots-Irish patriots, whiskey-loving Princeton scholars, and a fanatical frontier preacher had joined forces in a remote corner of North Carolina to become the first Americans to formally declare themselves free and independent from England.
Composed during a clandestine all-night session inside the Charlotte courthouse, the Mecklenburg Declaration, aka the MecDec, was signed on May 20, 1775a date thats still featured on the state flag of North Carolina. About a year later, in 1776, Jefferson is believed to have plagiarized the MecDec while composing his own, slightly more famous Declaration, and then, as he was wont to do, covered the whole thing up. Which is why Adams always insisted the MecDec needed to be thoroughly investigated and more universally made known to the present and future generation. Eleven U.S. Presidents and many of todays most respected historical scholars agree. Now, with Whos Your Founding Father?, David Fleming picks up where Adams investigation left off. Fleming leaves no archive, cemetery, bizarre clue, conspiracy theory, or wild character unexplored as he travels the globe and shines new light on one of the most fantastic, importantand controversialstories in American history.
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