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CALDWELL, TAYLOR Captains and the Kings: A Novel About an American Dynasty
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1972 BOOK CLUB HARDCOVER. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. 2" dust jacket tear, dust jacket edge wear, dust jacket toned. Binding tight, pages clean & bright. "This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless, driving man who founded it. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was twelve years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850s and he was a penniless immigrant and orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared of men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. Captains and the Kings is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bittersweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost-too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in a curse which uses the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself. Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America's roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition -- and its meaning then and now.".
Offered for US$ 29.75 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 069765
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