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Benjamin and William Franklin by Sheila L. Skemp - First Edition, 1994 from Macmillan Student Store
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Benjamin and William Franklin

First  Edition|©1994  Sheila L. Skemp

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A collection of letters details the father-son relationship in Benjamin and William Franklin, which stands as an example of the struggle over the question of loyalty to England during the American Revolution.

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Table of Contents

  Foreword
  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

Sheila L. Skemp is the Clare Leslie Marquette Chair in American history at the University of Mississippi.  She is the author of William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (1990) and First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for the Rights of Women (2009).  Skemp is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, and in 2009 she received the campus-wide Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship.


A collection of letters details the father-son relationship in Benjamin and William Franklin, which stands as an example of the struggle over the question of loyalty to England during the American Revolution.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

  Foreword
  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

Sheila L. Skemp

Sheila L. Skemp is the Clare Leslie Marquette Chair in American history at the University of Mississippi.  She is the author of William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (1990) and First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for the Rights of Women (2009).  Skemp is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, and in 2009 she received the campus-wide Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship.


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