Research Catalog

Title

American connections : the founding fathers, networked / James Burke.

Author

Burke, James, 1936-

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xv, 351 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Identifies lesser-known coincidences linking each of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence and modern-day America, tracing how historical events and people gave rise to today's technologies.

Subject

• United States. > Signers > Biography
• 1775-1815
• Statesmen > United States > Biography
• Legislators > United States > Biography
• Politicians > United States > Biography
• Biography > Miscellanea
• History > Miscellanea
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography
• United States > History > 1783-1815 > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Trivia and miscellanea
• Miscellanées.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-334) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

John Hancock (MA) -- Josiah Bartlett (NH) -- William Whipple (NH) -- Sam Adams (MA) -- John Adams (MA) -- Robert Treat Paine (MA) -- Stephen Hopkins (RI) -- William Ellery (RI) -- Roger Sherman (CT) -- Samuel Huntington (CT) -- William Williams (CT) -- William Floyd (NY) -- Philip Livingston (NY) -- Francis Lewis (NY) -- Lewis Morris (NY) -- Richard Stockton (NJ) -- John Witherspoon (NJ) -- Francis Hopkinson (NJ) -- John Hart (NJ) -- Abraham Clark (NJ) -- Robert Morris (PA) -- Benjamin Rush (PA) -- Benjamin Franklin (PA) -- John Morton (PA) -- George Clymer (PA) -- James Smith (PA) -- George Taylor (PA) -- James Wilson (PA) -- George Ross (PA) -- Caesar Rodney (DE) -- George Read (DE) -- Samuel Chase (MD) -- William Paca (MD) -- Thomas Stone (MD) -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton (MD) -- Thomas Jefferson (VA) -- Benjamin Harrison (VA) -- Thomas Nelson (VA) -- Frank Lee (VA) -- Carter Braxton (VA) -- William Hooper (NC) -- Joseph Hewes (NC) -- John Penn (NC) -- Edward Rutledge (SC) -- Thomas Heyward (SC) -- Thomas Lynch, Jr(SC) -- Arthur Middleton (SC) -- Button Gwinett (GA) -- Lyman Hall (GA) -- George Walton (GA) -- George Wythe (VA) -- Elbridge Gerry (MA) -- Richard Henry Lee (VA) -- Oliver Wolcott (CT) -- Matthew Thornton (MA) -- Thomas McKean (DE).

ISBN

• 9780743282260
• 0743282264

LCCN

^^2007003500

OCLC

81860860

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library