Lives of the Signers is a collection of fifty-four biographies of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. It includes more familiar names like John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, to the historically obscure. A collection of interesting stories of how each man came to sign a document that would eventually shake the world. In the process committing high treason against the most powerful nation on earth. One was a doctor who was able to treat a fatal disease no one else was treating at the time. Another was an orphan left with a large estate. Yet another was a minister...