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Author : Sheila L. Skemp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195057457
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book William Franklin written by Sheila L. Skemp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Benjamin Franklin's son, William, who remained a loyalist.
Author : Daniel Mark Epstein
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345544226
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Loyal Son written by Daniel Mark Epstein and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341612541
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and His Son William Franklin, Colonial Governor of New Jersey, to William Strahan, the Publisher written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nomination of William Franklin Knox, Hearings ..., on Nomination of Willia, F. Knox to be Secretary of the Navy, July 2, 3, 1940 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Leuchtenburg
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061836961
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal written by William E. Leuchtenburg and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States—and explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformation—for our time and for all time.
Author : Sheila L. Skemp
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312102838
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benjamin and William Franklin written by Sheila L. Skemp and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300061093
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Papers of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this edition of 'The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin' contains everything that Franklin wrote that can be found, and for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of Dr. Benjamin Franklin ... and His Son William Franklin ... to William Strahan ... written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Snell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823221486
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book From First to Last written by Mark A. Snell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of Franklin's life points out the flaws and lapses of judgement - such as at the battle of Crampton's Gap - but illuminates his previously ignored strengths. From First to Last may well change the way historians interpret this important period of American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edward J. Larson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062880179
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Franklin & Washington written by Edward J. Larson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution." —Gordon S. Wood From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Washington Post's "10 Books to Read in February" • One of USA Today’s “Must-Read Books" of Winter 2020 • One of Publishers Weekly's "Top Ten" Spring 2020 Memoirs/Biographies Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin—an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north—and George Washington—a slaveholding general from the agrarian south—were the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention, held in Franklin’s Philadelphia and presided over by Washington. And yet their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the centuries since. Illuminating Franklin and Washington’s relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement of the American project. After long supporting British rule, both Franklin and Washington became key early proponents of independence. Their friendship gained historical significance during the American Revolution, when Franklin led America’s diplomatic mission in Europe (securing money and an alliance with France) and Washington commanded the Continental Army. Victory required both of these efforts to succeed, and success, in turn, required their mutual coordination and cooperation. In the 1780s, the two sought to strengthen the union, leading to the framing and ratification of the Constitution, the founding document that bears their stamp. Franklin and Washington—the two most revered figures in the early republic—staked their lives and fortunes on the American experiment in liberty and were committed to its preservation. Today the United States is the world’s great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago—the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college—as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.
