John Jakes

A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War.

Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, a former robber baron enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's dangerous romance with an impoverished young Irishman

A German immigrant and beer baron sees his daughter become a motion picture actress, his son immerse himself in the world of automobiles, and his nephew go off to World War I as a news photographer

Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.

Two West Point cadets, one from the north and the other from the south, become long time friends as they survive the Mexican-American War, only to be divided as the nation moves toward the Civil War

A collection of thirty of John Jakes' favorite westerns depicting the frontier spirit, individual freedoms, and man's relationship with the land