PART ONE: Introduction. 1. Self-made Men. 2. Forging a Partnership Government Men. 3. Men in the Middle. 4. The Making of a Patriot. 5. The Making of a Loyalist. 6. Toward Independence. 7. When in the Course of Human Events. Epilogue. PART TWO: Documents. 1. William Franklin to Benjamin Franklin, September 7, 1765. 2. Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, November 9, 1765. 3. Cato's Letters, excerpts. 4 John Dickinson Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania, excerpts. 5. William Franklin to Lord Hillsborough, November 23, 1768. 6. Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, November 29, 1769. 7. Benjamin Franklin to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, July 7, 1773. 8. William Franklin Speech to the New Jersey Assembly, January 13, 1775. 9. William Franklin to the Earl of Dartmouth, May 6, 1775.
Sheila L. Skemp is associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (1990), and has served as an editor of two volumes dealing with issues of race and gender in the South. She is currently working on a biography of Judith Sargent Murray. Skemp was the recipient of the University of Mississippi's award for Outstanding Teacher in the Liberal Arts.
"This is a fine work that will stimulate students to study in greater depth the Revolution and the lives of participants such as the Franklins."
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