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Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources. FamilySearch Catalog: The Shockey chronicles: biographical annals of the Shockey family — FamilySearch.org. The Kent Family Chronicles Volume 7. The Civil War is over, but the Kent family’s good fortune is suddenly threatened in this novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South.

The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

The books feature different 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 death of Gideon Kent in The Americans. The series was originally intended to continue until 1976, covering 200 years.^[3]

The first two novels in the series were made into telefilms in 1978 and 1979, both starring Andrew Stevens as Philip Kent, with the third adapted as a 1979 telefilm starring Randolph Mantooth as the son, Abraham Kent. 'Operation Prime Time' premiered in syndication with the first of these.

Novels[edit]

• The Bastard (1974) (Miniseries adaptation: The Bastard)
• The Rebels (1975) (Miniseries adaptation: The Rebels)
• The Seekers (1975) (Miniseries adaptation: The Seekers)
• The Furies (1976)
• The Titans (1976)
• The Warriors (1977)
• The Lawless (1978)
• The Americans (1979)

Kent Family Chronicles Book Set

Footnotes[edit]

1. ^Mary Ellen Jones. 'John Jakes', Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, pp. 286-288
2. ^Kay Kipling. 'The John Jakes Chronicles', Sarasota Magazine, November 2006.
3. ^Mary Ellen Jones. 'Part Two: The Kent Family ChroniclesJohn Jakes: A Critical Companion, Greenwood Press, 1996, p. 29.

External links[edit]

• The Bastard on IMDb
• The Rebels on IMDb
• The Seekers on IMDb

Chronicles Of The Bement Family In America

The Family Chronicle S T Aksakov