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"The greatest capacity running a business is to be friends with others and to influence their activities." (John Hancock) A whole lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential numbers, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the Country wide Archives Building in Washington, DC, the foundational documents of the United States are stored under levels of bulletproof glass in an atmosphere of argon gas, in casements made to retract in case of emergency into vaults made to make it through a nuclear blast. People in the usa are familiar with the famous phrases contained in the Constitution, Costs of Privileges, and Declaration of Freedom, but visitors immediately notice how faded the documents on screen are, especially the Declaration of Freedom. What can scarcely be read, nor can the majority of the signatures of the signers be made out, with one famous exclusion: the large, bold, distinctive, & most recognizable personal in American record. Most Americans are familiar with John Hancock solely because of his famous personal, and his name has become a slang expression for signing a doc. But his conspicuous personal on the Declaration of Freedom has overshadowed the many and important contributions Hancock manufactured in colonial Boston before the revolution, the Continental Congress through the revolution, and Massachusetts state politics after the revolution.
