Remembering John Hanson [Hardcover]

Remembering John Hanson?re-illuminates the key Revolutionary War figure and Founding Father to whom George Washington reported when Hanson served as the first president of the original United States government chartered under the Articles of Confederation. This Hanson biography is the first in over seventy years, with the best documentation ever researched on him, spells out his two nation-saving triumphs which kept the nation whole on the eve of independence and again as it struggled to form a government, and made Hanson the umopposed choice by some of the greatest Americans who ever lived to be their and their nation's first president.?

Remembering John Hanson?brings to light the astounding and tragic story of the destruction of Hanson's tomb in the 1980s and the author's rediscovery of its site in researching the book. Also covered are current efforts to rekindle the nation's memory of Hanson and to dispel odd Internet myths that have arisen about him in recent years.

Peter H. Michael is publisher of?Underground Railroad Free Press, the nation's top-circulation Underground Railroad news publication, and publisher of Underground Railroad Free Press Books. Peter Michael's other recent books are?An American Family of the Underground Railroad, Guide to Freedom: Rediscovering the Underground Railroad, and?Palace of Yawns, a 365-day Southeast Asia journal at the tumultuous end of the Viet Nam War. Peter Michael was educated at the University of Maryland, Berkeley and Princeton and lives with his wife on his family's ancestral farm founded in 1768 near Adamstown, Maryland.

The first comprehensive biography of the most forgotten major figure in American history, reading this volume is nothing if not enriching. Michael's narrative presents . .l£”