"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...

Summary

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 parishioners—and his wife and children—against 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...