Homeland

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John Jakes, bestselling, world-acclaimed author of The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and the South Trilogy, has American history in his blood. His maternal grandfather emigrated from Germany in 1861 and settled in the Midwest. On his father's side he is a descendant of a private of the Virginia Continental Line who fought through the entire Revolution and saw the surrender of Yorktown. A great-uncle marched to the sea with Sherman. Jakes lives in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Greenwich, Connecticut.

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TA powerful family whose tragedies and triumphs define a nation and an era: this is the hallmark of the novels that have established John Jakes as master of the historical saga. In Homeland, Jakes has created an enthralling new dynasty—the Crowns of Chicago—contending with the awesome forces of history. Homeland is a towering epic of the immigrant adventure in America that calls to mind the rich tradition of Dreiser, Steinbeck, and Dos Passos. It pulses with a vast... Tovább

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John Jakes, bestselling, world-acclaimed author of The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and the South Trilogy, has American history in his blood. His maternal grandfather emigrated from Germany in 1861 and settled in the Midwest. On his father's side he is a descendant of a private of the Virginia Continental Line who fought through the entire Revolution and saw the surrender of Yorktown. A great-uncle marched to the sea with Sherman. Jakes lives in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Greenwich, Connecticut.

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TA powerful family whose tragedies and triumphs define a nation and an era: this is the hallmark of the novels that have established John Jakes as master of the historical saga. In Homeland, Jakes has created an enthralling new dynasty—the Crowns of Chicago—contending with the awesome forces of history. Homeland is a towering epic of the immigrant adventure in America that calls to mind the rich tradition of Dreiser, Steinbeck, and Dos Passos. It pulses with a vast gallery of characters DIckensian in their vitality and distinctiveness. Among the major and supporting cast are: Paul Crown, a Berlin street boy who immigrates to America, to be caught up by the wonders of the motion pictures, and by Julie Vanderhoff, endangered daughter of a Chicago-stockyards tycoon; Joseph Crown, Paul's German-born uncle, ex-Civil War soldier and iron-willed beer baron; llsa, Joseph's wife, torn between old ways and the "new women" of her era; Joe Junior, the Crowns' oldest son—rebellious, drawn to the socialist movement his father hates; Rose French, tough-minded
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daughter of a railway worker, who tries to claw her way into high society; Julie's Aunt Willis, a fiercely emancipated woman, always involved with a new lover; and raffish, profane Colonel Sid Shadow, a born tinkerer and promoter, who sees the true potential of the movies as a mass medium. Into the lives of these characters are woven the real stories of real people: labor leader Eugene Debs; ambitious Theodore Roosevelt; ruthless Thomas Edison; two strong-willed spinsters who changed the roles of American women forever, Clara Barton of the Red Cross and Jane Addams of Hull House; young Black Jack Pershing; the aging Buffalo Bill; and more. Spanning a turbulent watershed decade in world history, 1890-1900, the action sweeps from Europe to America and across the length and breadth of a nation exploding with technological change, rapacious greed, social protest, vice, political corruption, class warfare— a nation ultimately swept up into a "splendid little war" with Cuba, and into world power in a new century where the shadow of German imperialism looms. Vissza