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Title: The Signers: The Fifty-Six Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis Brindell Fradin, Michael McCurdy ISBN: 0-8027-8849-1 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good to know how July 2nd changed our lives.
Comment: John Adams thought July 2nd would be the day Americans would celebrate, not the 4th. That is just one detail Fradin and McCurdy bring out. History is so easily made bland, but their work breaks many assumptions apart in an easy to digest way. An important book for students and a good book for adults, with enough information between the lines to keep some of the rebelion alive. History is made not by dates, but by people decidedly taking steps toward multiple goals. I recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Non-fiction to read for pleasure
Comment: Very readable and enlightening story of all the signers of the Declaration. Fradin is a master of choosing just the right details about the lives of these men to bring them alive and interest his readers. It will also strike young people how precarious the lives of women and children were.
Rating: 3
Summary: Readable, entertaining, questionable
Comment: This reads like a storybook, telling a great deal about the men who signed our declaration. Fillng in gaps in the men's stories, it is also a lively read about life in revolutionary times.
The author seems to try to be even-handed, saying that we will never really know about Betsy Ross's involvement in the flag, for instance, but that she and her family were indeed important at the time. Reasonable.
It is all the more disturbing, in this seemingly well-researched book, to have Fradin assert that Thomas Jefferson certainly was the father of Sally Hemings' children. Just like Betsy Ross, no one knows. (DNA evidence was found to link a Jefferson male with ONE of her 6 known children--but there were 25 other Jeffersons in the area at the time.) Unfortunately now a good many of Fradin's other assertions are suspect.
I just don't have the time to check every single fact in a history book; I want to enjoy the book, itself. I'll be reading this volume with a much more critical eye now, and cautious about recommending it to children.
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Title: The Declaration of Independence by United States, Sam Fink, Thomas Jefferson ISBN: 0439407001 Publisher: Scholastic Reference Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence by Benson J. Lossing ISBN: 0925279455 Publisher: Wallbuilder Pr Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Wives of the Signers by Mary W. Green, Mary Wolcott Green, David Barton, Harry Clinton Pioneer Mothers of America Green ISBN: 0925279609 Publisher: Wallbuilder Pr Pub. Date: 10 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The American Revolution for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Janis Herbert ISBN: 1556524560 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Greatness to spare; the heroic sacrifices of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence by T. R. Fehrenbach, Timothy Patrick Miller ISBN: 0965527522 Publisher: Visions Audio Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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