John HancockBy: Willard Sterne Randall A compelling, intimate portrait of John Hancock, going beyond the flamboyant signature to reveal the pivotal role that he had in the American Revolution A contemporary of Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, Hancock had a list of contacts that read like a whos who of the American Revolution. But shockingly little has been written about Hancock himself. John Hancock tells the story of a