A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin & His Son

Willard Sterne Randall. Little Brown and Company, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-316-73365-6

Before the Revolution, Ben Franklin and his only son William were very close, but when William, royal governor of New Jersey, remained a loyalist, Ben disowned him. PW praised Randall's ""richly detailed narrative of these men and their painful estrangement.'' (April)

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