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Historical person
1706–1790
Benjamin Franklin was an American printer, scientist, diplomat and revolutionary statesman. He helped secure French support during the American Revolution, participated in peace negotiations and contributed to both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
Benjamin Franklin also held the offices or ranks of United States Ambassador to France, United States Ambassador to Sweden, United States Postmaster General, and Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston and died in Philadelphia.
In Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation, in this work of political history, Gore Vidal examines the revolutionary generation through George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, while also considering Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. In Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion, John Adams defends the soldiers accused in the killings, Benjamin Franklin attempts to preserve a workable imperial relationship in London, and Thomas Gage confronts resistance that his orders and troops repeatedly intensify. Further fictional perspectives on Benjamin Franklin can be found in John Jakes’ The Bastard, Jeff Shaara’s The Glorious Cause, and Kimberley Woodhouse’s The Patriot Bride. For broader historical treatment of Benjamin Franklin, see Robert Harvey’s A Few Bloody Noses and Hourly History’s American Revolution.
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Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The Daughters of the Mayflower follows successive generations of one extended American family from the voyage of 1620 to the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Written by several historical-romance authors, the sequence moves through colonial settlement, imperial war, revolution, westward migration, the War of 1812, the Texas…
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Non Fiction
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