Charles Carroll of Carrollton: American Revolutionary

Charles Carroll’s life began nearly four decades before the War of Independence and ended while Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was in office. As Fr. Charles Connor explains, Carroll was “the last of the signers to die, the wealthiest man in the colonies and the new republic, and clung tenaciously to the faith of his forebearers his entire life.”

In this masterfully written biography, which reads like a riveting novel, Fr. Connor brilliantly sets the stage for Car...