"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...
SummaryThe 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...
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