The Kent Family Chronicles

2 Footnotes

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 of
America. 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
rst author to have three books on the New York Times
bestseller list in a single year (1975).[2]

[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 Chronicles John Jakes: A Critical Companion, Greenwood Press,
1996, p. 29

The books feature dierent members of the Kent family, connecting them with historical events at the time of
the American Revolution. The rst 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 gures of the Revolution, including the Marquis de La Fayette, 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]

3 External links
John Jakes Ocial Homepage
The Bastard on IMDb
The Rebels on IMDb
The Seekers on IMDb

The rst two novels in the series were made into telelms
in 1978 and 1979, both starring Andrew Stevens as Philip
Kent, with the third adapted as a 1979 telelm starring
Randolph Mantooth as the son, Abraham Kent.

Novels
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)
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