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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence. Author: Joseph D'Agnese. 256 pages. 2009.

This book is a collection of three and four page biographies of those individuals who signed the Declaration of Independence. Each biographies describes their birth, early life, their professions and reasons for being their at the time of the signing (though one did not sign the document until five years later), it also tells what happened to them and where they died and are buried. To make the subject interesting or tell people remember these men each is given a historical fact or oddity which best describes or exemplifies them. Typically the singular characteristic is one noted in the journals or diaries of their peers.

Their stories are interesting and often subject to myth. The reality though is often far more interesting. But beyond the men, looming always in the background, is the Declaration of Independence itself. The document you can see under glass at the National Archives is not the same document which was agreed on and then proclaimed in public reading.

Remember the document was sent to the publisher for typeset and proclamation on the fourth of July. That copy, the broadsheet, had only two typeset signatures. That document which was read aloud in public was not unanimously adopted, New York had abstained. The version viewable under glass states "unanimous" because by then New York sanctioned its delegates to vote in the affirmative.

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