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The loyal son : the war in Ben Franklin's house /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Daniel Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
Franklin, William, > 1731-1813.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Governors > New Jersey > Biography.
American loyalists > Biography.
Statesmen's children > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: a night journey, 1731
  • Part I. Sons of the empire
  • Americans in London: September 22, 1761
  • Colonial contemporaries, 1753
  • Defenses and engagements
  • Challenges, 1757
  • Triumphs
  • Part II. America and her children
  • America, 1763
  • A frenzy or madness
  • Blood and money
  • Rebellion, 1772-73
  • A thorough government man
  • Two roads
  • Part III. War
  • Trevose, 1775
  • The last word
  • The reckoning, 1776
  • Paterfamilias
  • The dark night of the soul
  • Part IV. Danse macabre
  • The scene of action, 1778-81
  • Captain Huddy and the dance of death
  • Going home
  • Epilogue, 1785-1823.