Benjamin Franklin's BastardBenjamin Frankilns Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little known chapter of the American Revolution the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them both. William Franklin, the son of Benjamin and his favorite mistress, Anne, is raised by Deborah, Benjamins wife. A steadfast loyalist, he and his father cannot reconcile their wildly disparate

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and the romantic life of a famous tennis player

a heavily outnumbered English army faced off against the French in the historic Battle of Poitiers

Never before have these questions been tackled with such simplicity

Independence onwards

With the fate of the Castle hanging in the balance

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It was a literary moment of sorts: spontaneous

Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield

The morning of his sentencing

We have enough examples in this country of people who have turned industry norms upside down to pull off the impossible in their fields

Over the course of her decades-long career