Benjamin and William Franklin

Benjamin and William Franklin
Author: Sheila L. Skemp
Publsiher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 355
Release: 1994-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781319242626

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The American Revolution was a civil war as well as a war for independence. The experience of Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, royal governor of New Jersey, reveals America's internal struggle over the question of loyalty to England. A collection of letters accompanies Sheila Skemp's narrative of the two men, bonded by blood, divided by political cause.

William Franklin

William Franklin
Author: Sheila L. Skemp
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1990
Genre: American loyalists
ISBN: 9780195057454

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A biography of Benjamin Franklin's son, William, who remained a loyalist.

The Loyal Son

The Loyal Son
Author: Daniel Mark Epstein
Publsiher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780345544223

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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution—from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America’s founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness—even his grandfatherly appearance—are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals that dogged him throughout his life. In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the more enigmatic aspects of Franklin’s biography: his complex and confounding relationship with his illegitimate son William. When he was twenty-four, Franklin fathered a child with a woman who was not his wife. He adopted the boy, raised him, and educated him to be his aide. Ben and William became inseparable. After the famous kite-in-a-thunderstorm experiment, it was William who proved that the electrical charge in a lightning bolt travels from the ground up, not from the clouds down. On a diplomatic mission to London, it was William who charmed London society. He was invited to walk in the procession of the coronation of George III; Ben was not. The outbreak of the American Revolution caused a devastating split between father and son. By then, William was royal governor of New Jersey, while Ben was one of the foremost champions of American independence. In 1776, the Continental Congress imprisoned William for treason. George Washington made efforts to win William’s release, while his father, to the world’s astonishment, appeared to have abandoned him to his fate. A fresh take on the combustible politics of the age of independence, The Loyal Son is a gripping account of how the agony of the American Revolution devastated one of America’s most distinguished families. Like Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough, Epstein is a storyteller first and foremost, a historian who weaves together fascinating incidents discovered in long-neglected documents to draw us into the private world of the men and women who made America. “The history of loyalist William Franklin and his famous father has been told before but not as fully or as well as it is by Daniel Mark Epstein in The Loyal Son. Mr. Epstein, a biographer and poet, has done a lot of fresh research and invests his narrative with literary grace and judicious sympathy for both father and son.”—The Wall Street Journal

Benjamin and William Franklin

Benjamin and William Franklin
Author: Sheila L. Skemp
Publsiher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 0312102836

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The American Revolution was a civil war as well as a war for independence. The experience of Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, royal governor of New Jersey, reveals America's internal struggle over the question of loyalty to England. A collection of letters accompanies Sheila Skemp's narrative of the two men, bonded by blood, divided by political cause.

The Making of a Patriot

The Making of a Patriot
Author: Sheila L. Skemp
Publsiher: Critical Historical Encounters
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780195386578

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In The Making of a Patriot, renowned Franklin historian Sheila Skemp presents a insightful, lively narrative that goes beyond the traditional Franklin biography--and behind the common myths--to demonstrate how Franklin's ultimate decision to support the colonists was by no means a foregone conclusion.

A Little Revenge

A Little Revenge
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
Publsiher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1984
Genre: American loyalists
ISBN: 0316733644

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Benjamin and William Franklin

Benjamin and William Franklin
Author: Sheila L. Skemp
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1995-12-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 031213830X

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Benjamin Franklin in London

Benjamin Franklin in London
Author: George Goodwin
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Americans
ISBN: 9780300220247

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An account of Franklin's British years.