The Crown Family Saga - by John Jakes

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A New Family ...
A New Century...
A New Saga!

Homeland

. . . the story of the Crown Family begins

"A master of the ancient art of storytelling."
--New York Times

Hailed as a New York Times 1993 "Notable Book of the Year" when first published, Homeland introduces a dynamic and colorful new family -- the Crowns of Chicago.

As America hurtles through the final explosive events of the nineteenth century, a young German immigrant named Pauli Kroner finds his way to the Chicago mansion of his uncle, millionaire brewer Joe Crown.

Pauli's ultimate clash with the stern, proud patriarch forces him into a perilous existence on the city's dark side. There, as Paul Crown, he rises from penniless newcomer to pioneer newsreel cameraman whose adventures span a tumultuous decade of strikes, war, family scandal and heartbreak in the country he has chosen as his . . . Homeland.

Signet | Softcover | $7.99US | 0-451-19842-5

American Dreams

... the story of the Crown Family continues

"A wonderfully compelling story."
-- McClatchy Newspapers

"A fascinating collection of Dickensian characters." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

As a brash young nation takes its place on an international stage, children of the German-immigrant Crown family plunge into the excitement and danger of a new century.

Fritzi, the actress, travels from the tawdry haunts of Broadway to the new, rowdy world of silent pictures. Carl, the wanderer, seeks new thrills in the fast world of auto racing, then zooms into then dangerous skies of the Mexican revolution and the battlefields of France ... while Paul, the young hero of Homeland, films the devastation of World War I to awaken a sleeping America.

Signet | Softcover | $7.99US | 0-451-19701-1

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