New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother, Sean, and his infant sister, Regina, are ...
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New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother, Sean, and his infant sister, Regina, are sent to an orphanage. Joseph toils at whatever work will pay a living wage and plans for the day he can take his siblings away from St. Agnes's Orphanage and make a home for them all. Joseph's journey will catapult him to the highest echelons of power and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. Even as misfortune continues to follow the Armagh family like an ancient curse, Joseph takes his revenge against the uncaring world that once took everything from him. He orchestrates his eldest son Rory's political ascent from the offspring of an Irish immigrant to US senator. And Joseph will settle for nothing less than the pinnacle of glory: seeing his boy crowned the first Catholic president of the United States. Spanning seventy years, Captains and the Kings , which was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries, is Taylor Caldwell's masterpiece about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, and the grit, ambition, fortitude, and sheer hubris it takes for an immigrant to survive and thrive in a dynamic new land.
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Good. 1975. Paperback. Good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks. Light foxing to page edges, remains a good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
I have always liked Taylor Caldwell and cant understand why her books have gone out of print. This was one book I never got around to reading and it is quite difficult to come by. What an eye opener!! Although it is not the main focus of the story the parts that deal about globalization by an elite extremely wealthy group of men are incredible. In view of all that is happening in this day and age this book has put a lot of things in perspective for me, and gave me a lot to think about. I can not recommend this book highly enough. I have actually gone and bought several copies to give to friends to read. Why it has not been reprinted is beyond me.
ptkc
Oct 9, 2008
Presidential Candidates~
Taylor Caldwell is one of my favorite writers. Her conservative views along with her vast historical knowledge makes her writing educational as well as thought provoking. This book is based loosely on the Kennedy family, the rise to power in the American government and the "King Makers" the world bankers who are really in charge of it all. I highly recommend this book to those of you who want to see a different conservative perspective on governmental issues.
