Kim Rogers Burdick

Considering that I picked this up at the check-out line at Walgreens, it is an excellent short account of the Revolutionary War in Delaware.

George Read was one of Delaware's most famous founding fathers. He is one of only two men who signed all three of the Petition to the King from the Congress of 1774, The Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, but this little book relates that Read had voted against independence at the Continental Congress of 1776, and when Delaware's troops returned to the state after the war he was serving as State President and he denied that the soldiers had a right to vote after being outside of the state for so long. He recanted this position when angry crowds collected on election day and he became "anxious for his personal safety".… (mer)