In King Hancock, the Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father, Brooke Barbier paints the portrait of a walking contradiction: one of the wealthiest men in the colonies, but a man of the people; a merchant who made his fortune in the warm embrace of empire, but signed his name first for independence; and an … Continue reading King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father, with Brooke Barbier (episode 286)