The United States of America was founded and established by ordinary citizens just like you and me. In their struggle fo
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Table of contents :
Cover Image
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Life
Peter Francisco
John Laurens
Austin Dabney
Thomas Nelson Jr.
James Armistead Lafayette, Lydia Darragh, and Nathan Hale
Part II: Liberty
Nancy Morgan Hart
Abraham Whipple, Jonathan Haraden, and Lambert Wickes
Timothy Murphy, William Jasper, and Francis Marion
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Emily Geiger, Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, Phillis Wheatley, and Elizabeth Lewis
Part III: The Pursuit of Happiness
Elias Boudinot
Christopher Ludwick
Haym Salomon. John WitherspoonRichard Allen and Lemuel Haynes
Afterword
Appendix I: The Declaration of Independence
Appendix II: Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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