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The loyal son the war in Ben Franklin's house [LP]

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...

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Main Author: Epstein, Daniel Mark (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House Large Print, [2017]
Edition:First large print 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.
Large print books.
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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.

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