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The Crown Family Saga 1890 -1900. Dedicated to my grandfather. A Biography of John Jakes. For he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. Exodus 2. And homeless near a thousand homes I stood.

The Crown Family Saga 1890 -1900. d. Terre Haute, Indiana, 1936. There is a photo of him in old age, handsome still with his white imperial, seated in dappled sunlight. with a small boy on his knee. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. LEO TOLSTOY. GERMAN 1: I have a relative in America. GERMAN 2: Everybody has a relative in America.

In Homeland, Jakes has created an enthralling new dynasty - the Crowns of Chicago - contending with the awesome forces of history

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. A 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.

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. From the New York Times –bestselling author of North and South : The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family’s rise in 20th-century America. The tide of the twentieth century is rising upon the world.

Read Homeland, by John Jakes online on Bookmate – From the New York Times–bestselling author of North and South: The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family’s rise in 20th-century.

Read Homeland, by John Jakes online on Bookmate – From the New York Times–bestselling author of North and South: The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family’s rise in 20th-centur. From the New York Times–bestselling author of North and South: The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family’s rise in 20th-century America. The tide of the twentieth century is rising upon the world, and on its crest rides the Crown family. Young Pauli Kroner, freshly arrived in America from the streets of Berlin, makes his way to the mansion of his millionaire uncle in Chicago, looking to fulfill his dreams.

Homeland is the first in a John Jakes series about the Crown family, a story of German-American immigrants from the 19th century

Homeland is the first in a John Jakes series about the Crown family, a story of German-American immigrants from the 19th century. As the story opens, young Paul Crown barely escapes starvation to arrive in America where, he again, barely escapes starvation. Luckily for him, he has a wealthy American relative - Joe Crown. Jakes provides an interesting look at Chicago in the late 19th century.

In Homeland, internationally acclaimed bestselling author John Jakes brings to life an epic saga of the American immigrant experience in this story of a family dynasty in turmoil at the dawn of a new century. Similar books by other authors.

John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction. His Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He is also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. He has used the pen name Jay Scotland. Jakes was born in Chicago, Illinois. He first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. Jakes studied creative writing at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1953.

Living in the Chicago mansion of his brewery tycoon uncle, Pauli Kroner clashes with his proud guardian and, forced into life on the city's dark side, becomes Paul Crown, a man driven by power and ambition.

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