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Benjamin and William Franklin
Father and Son, Patriot and LoyalistFirst Edition| ©1994 Sheila L. Skemp
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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.
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First Edition| 1994
Sheila L. Skemp
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I. BENJAMIN AND WILLIAM FRANKLIN
Introduction: Divided Loyalties
1. Self-Made Men
2. Forging a Partnership
3. Government Men
4. Men in the Middle
5. The Making of a Patriot
6. The Making of a Loyalist
7. Toward Independence
8. "When in the Course of Human Events"
Epilogue
PART II. THE DOCUMENTS
1. William Franklin, Letter to Benjamin Franklin, September 7, 1765
2. Benjamin Franklin, Letter to William Franklin, September 9, 1765
3. John Dickinson, From "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies," 1767, 1768
4. William Franklin, Letter to Lord Hillsborough, November 23, 1768
5. Benjamin Franklin, "Causes of the American Discontents before 1768," January 1768
6. William Franklin, Speech to the New Jersey Assembly, January 13, 1775
7. William Franklin, Letter to Lord Dartmouth, May 6, 1775
8. Benjamin Franklin, Letter to William Franklin, August 16, 1784
APPENDICES
A Franklin Chronology (1706–1814)
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Sheila L. Skemp

Benjamin and William Franklin
First Edition| 1994
Sheila L. Skemp
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