Kent Chronicles Family Bicentennial John Jakes Complete Series Vintage HCDJ BCE

Description: The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The books became best sellers, with no novel in the series selling fewer than 3.5 million copies. With "The Rebels", "The Seekers", and "The Furies", Jakes became the first author to have three books on the New York Times bestseller list in a single year, 1975.The books feature various members of the Kent family, connecting them with historical events at the time of the American Revolution. The first novel begins just before the American Revolution, with Frenchman Phillipe Charboneau, who travels to England and later to the New World, changing his name to Philip Kent along the way and meeting several key figures of the Revolution, including the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, and others. The saga ends some generations later in 1890, with "The Americans."

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