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...JOHN HANCOCK: PATRIOT IN PURPLE (422 pp.) - Herbert S. Allan - Macmillan...
...many years John Hancock has needed no other credentials than the flourishing signature (twice the size of anyone else's) with which he signed the Declaration of Independence. Many a schoolboy has heard what Hancock reportedly said then: "There! John Bull can read my name without spectacles, and may now double his reward of ?500 for my head. That is my defiance." It was enough to make John a bona fide hero in all textbooks, engravings on schoolroom walls, and advertisements for a prominent insurance company. But obviously there was more to be said...
...John Hancock: Patriot in Purple is the sort of biography that has lately become fairly common-a valuable study of a neglected historic figure, written, however, with an air of almost deliberate carelessness, in a scratchy and repetitious prose style, and with modern, skeptical yawns breaking in on the high-minded speeches of the patriots...
Mansions & Masses. From his merchant uncle, John Hancock inherited a fortune, an interest in 20 ships, a vast mansion on Beacon Hill, with one of the loveliest gardens in Boston. He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined...
...Hamlet & Hancock. Among the prize English items: William Caxton's printing of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1475), first book printed in English; one of the two known copies of the 1603 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Top American purchases include: the only specimen of Columbus' handwriting in the New World; John Hancock's letter naming Washington commander in chief; the neatly penned Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin...