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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House by Daniel Mark Epstein
5.0
Ok, raise your hand if you'd never even thought of Ben Franklin having a son? (Illigetiment, no less?) Just me, huh?
We've often read of the Civil War splitting up families, but I can't think of ever reading one from the American Revolution and certainly not from the household of one of the major players.
It was really hard to feel sympathy for William and his Tori-ness unless I reminded myself how busy and therefore absent his own father was during his upbringing. It's not like you can gain the love of Democracy, especially creating a democracy out of whole cloth, via DNA, it takes constant attention, just like everything in parenting.
In my mind, family comes first, then politics, religion, and all of the other tightrope subjects. William was no better than his father and his choices were really very similar when it came to their personal lives. None of this is an excuse though and I can't forgive either of them, but my distaste is more so for William Franklin.
Hard to read, seeing politics tearing a family apart, but also enlightening in that all parents and their relationships with kids are really complicated, no matter the century.
We've often read of the Civil War splitting up families, but I can't think of ever reading one from the American Revolution and certainly not from the household of one of the major players.
It was really hard to feel sympathy for William and his Tori-ness unless I reminded myself how busy and therefore absent his own father was during his upbringing. It's not like you can gain the love of Democracy, especially creating a democracy out of whole cloth, via DNA, it takes constant attention, just like everything in parenting.
In my mind, family comes first, then politics, religion, and all of the other tightrope subjects. William was no better than his father and his choices were really very similar when it came to their personal lives. None of this is an excuse though and I can't forgive either of them, but my distaste is more so for William Franklin.
Hard to read, seeing politics tearing a family apart, but also enlightening in that all parents and their relationships with kids are really complicated, no matter the century.