CSPAN2 Book TV July 21, 2013
And religion. I started out studying quakers and quakerism in the colonial period and when i got to the revolution his name kept coming up. When i try to research and i couldnt find anything about him, or very little, and what was there was very conflicted and nobody seemed to be able to understand his actions. Very few people have heard of him today. Thats in stark contrast to his reputation during his lifetime. In the years immediately leading up to the revolution, his name was better known than washington or franklin. John dickinson wrote many of americas first state papers, and many of the...