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Author:

Epstein, Daniel Mark, author.

Title:

The loyal son : the war in Ben Franklin's house / Daniel Mark Epstein.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xx, 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0345544218
9780345544216

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958413466

LCCN:

2017013553

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