![]() ![]() ![]() till tragic involvement with John Brown at Harper's Ferry. George is the luckier of the two, happily marrying Constance (a Catholic who harbors runaway slaves), then running the family business despite creepy brother Stanley's rottenness, and raising young brother Billy to follow in his West Point footsteps the only major family problem is sister Virgilia, a seething abolitionist (the book's most objectionable prototype) who lusts for black men and eventually lives in sin with one (a runaway slave). rice plantation) when the two lads enter together as plebes at West Point in 1842: ""Orry had a feeling this pugnacious little Yankee was going to be a friend."" And so they are, of course, in the Mexican War and through summertime visits over the decades of increasing North/South discord and respective family woes. iron-works) meets Southerner Orry Main (S.C. ![]() installment (1842-1861) of a trilogy about two families before, during, and after the Civil War. Jakes, king of paperback US historicals and author of several juveniles, arrives in hardcover with more of the same: the first 950-pp. ![]()
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