{"product_id":"barbier-b-king-hancock-9780674271777","title":"Barbier B King Hancock","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke Barbier explores Hancock’s position as a revolutionary who nonetheless understood the value of compromise. By shunning political extremes, Hancock became hugely influential in the infant United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA concise and highly readable biography…[Hancock’s] legacy is very much worth our remembering. -- William Anthony Hay * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e[An] approachable biography…American history buffs will enjoy the immersive portrait of Boston’s Revolutionary era. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Hancock\u003c\/i\u003e 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. -- Marc M. Arkin * New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003eA terrific book. Barbier’s meticulous research sheds light on how one of the wealthiest men of his time made himself into a man of the people—a politician whose genuine capacity for sensing the popular mood commanded fierce loyalty, even as he clashed with both Loyalists and radical Patriots. John Hancock was an important figure, and this biography helps restore him to his proper place. -- Robert J. Allison, author of \u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbier has written a fine biography, carefully guiding readers through Hancock’s life, his political career, and the world around him. In our politically polarized times, this founding father’s legacy of political moderation is sure to resonate. -- Benjamin L. Carp, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this lively and insightful biography, Barbier illuminates John Hancock’s mastery of popular politics in an age of revolution. Drawing on a rich and profound knowledge of eighteenth-century Boston, she recovers the social world of a leader whose skills extended far beyond his celebrated penmanship. -- Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exuberant biography, well told and spirited. As we follow John Hancock through the turmoil that led to the Revolution, we see a man guided more by a desire to charm, entertain, and curry favor with both elites and ordinary people than by a rigid commitment to a specific politics or ideology. In Barbier’s hands Hancock’s life unfolds as dramatic theater. -- Sharon V. Salinger, author of \u003ci\u003eTaverns and Drinking in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHancock’s success might seem inevitable given his resources, his canny political sensibility, and just plain good fortune. Yet, as Ms. Barbier suggests, biography and history are contingent. What looks inescapable did not seem so to those who struggled to create a new country. -- Carl Rollyson * New York Sun *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403575370071,"sku":"9780674271777","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674271777.jpg?v=1730483878","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/barbier-b-king-hancock-9780674271777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}