John Jakes

"John Jakes. . . make history come alive. "

Chronicling America during the turbulent period from 1906 to 1917, John Jakes captures the lives of the men and women who colored a nation's future. American Dreams follows the children of the German-immigrant Crown family first introduced in Homeland: actress Fritzi Crown, a woman of formidable ambition and fierce independence, as she travels from the tawdry haunts of Broadway to California and its

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Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous journey to the West, along with his new bride, to make his fortune.