Who's Your Founding Father?

By David Fleming,

Book cover of Who's Your Founding Father?: One Man's Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence

Book description

A centuries-old secret document might unravel the origin story of America and reveal the intellectual crime of the millennia in this epic dive into our country’s history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence.

In 1819 John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register that…

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1 author picked Who's Your Founding Father? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book causes the reader to rethink all that they have been taught regarding the colonial history and founding of our United States.

Did Thomas Jefferson actually plagiarize the Declaration of Independence based on a similar document from 1775 that was sent on horseback from Charlotte, N.C., to the constitutional convention in Philadelphia a full year earlier? I see ample evidence that makes for a strong argument, and this book is both an entertaining and historically based-account of a 250-year-old mystery.

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