The Titans With a New Introduction by the Author “The godfather of historical novelists,” (Los Angeles Times), John Jakes paints riveting portraits of America’s glorious and turbulent past in his bestselling novels. The Titans continues the eight-volume saga of the Kent family as the division of a nation divides a father from his sons… The son of a mountain man and a Shoshoni Indian, Jephtha Kent was taught the value of a hard day’s work and a reverence for all things living. He rejected his share of the family fortune, in the hands of his unscrupulous cousin Louis. Instead, he became a respected man of the cloth, until his abolitionist sermons turned his parishionersand his wife and childrenagainst him. Now, a reporter for his family newspaper, Jephtha can only watch as his sons take up the Confederate cause in a civil war that threatens to tear the country apart…
(The Kent Family Chronicles Volume V) |





