Captains and the Kings
By Taylor Caldwell
- Release Date: 2016-11-15
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Description
New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power.
Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother, Sean, and his infant sister, Regina, are sent to an orphanage. Joseph toils at whatever work will pay a living wage and plans for the day he can take his siblings away from St. Agnes’s Orphanage and make a home for them all.
Joseph’s journey will catapult him to the highest echelons of power and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. Even as misfortune continues to follow the Armagh family like an ancient curse, Joseph takes his revenge against the uncaring world that once took everything from him. He orchestrates his eldest son Rory’s political ascent from the offspring of an Irish immigrant to US senator. And Joseph will settle for nothing less than the pinnacle of glory: seeing his boy crowned the first Catholic president of the United States.
Spanning seventy years, Captains and the Kings, which was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries, is Taylor Caldwell’s masterpiece about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, and the grit, ambition, fortitude, and sheer hubris it takes for an immigrant to survive and thrive in a dynamic new land.
Reviews
Excellent Story telling!!!
5By BenC62Very interesting all through And with a good storyline that held my interest throughout. excellent description and development of characters throughout. This held my interest throughout the entire book and even left me wanting more. I have become a Taylor Caldwell fan.A personal favorite
5By hsldudLoved this book - one of the first books I actually readTimeless
5By suhollanSpellbinding and frightening.Captains and Kings
5By Golfcourse1234Fantastic. Vocabulary usage excellent. Can’t wait to read more of her booksFull of typos>:(
4By FuzzmuttonThe book itself is a good read but this ebook version is chock full of typos and one whole chapter had both sides of the paragraphs cut off.