A centuries-old secret document might unravel the origin story of America and reveal the intellectual crime of the millennia in this epic dive into our country’s history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence.
The story claims that a full 14 months before Jefferson crafted his own Declaration of Independence, a misfit band of zealous Scots-Irish patriots, whiskey-loving Princeton scholars, and a fanatical frontier preacher had joined forces in a remote corner of North Carolina to become the first Americans to formally declare themselves “free and independent” from England.
This book has it all: conspiracy theories, a Dunkin' Donuts obsession, US Presidents, and even a stunt designed by NASCAR promoter Humpy Wheeler
Fleming takes the reader on a wild historical treasure hunt with stops in London, Boston, Chapel Hill, and of course – the cradle (cradles?) of American independence - Philadelphia and Charlotte.