John Hancock Merchant King And American Patriot

He was a rich, powerful aristocrat, a merchant king who loved English culture and fashion, and, above all, he was a loyal British subject with ambitions of a lordship and a grand retirement estate in England. There simply was no doubt about it: John Hancock was the least likely man in Boston to start a rebellion. How, then, did this Tory patrician become one of the staunchest supporters of the American Revolution?Unger, Harlow Giles is the author of 'John Hancock Merchant King And American Patriot', published 2005 under ISBN 9780785820260 and ISBN 0785820264.