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William Hooper Episode 4: Post-War Moderation, Health Collapse & Lasting Legacy | Series Finale | The Quiet Flipper
What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 The final episode of The Quiet Flipper — our 4-part deep dive into Brother William Hooper.
The quiet flipper who signed the Declaration, paid a brutal personal price, then showed real square in victory. We follow his post-war service shaping North Carolina government, controversial calls for fair treatment of Loyalists, declining health with malaria, gout, and rum, and his death at just 48 in 1790.
Raw and unflinching: family endurance with Anne Clark Hooper, the chisel of illness and loss, and how he kept measuring square even as his body failed.
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