Captains and Kings
| Year of Publication |
1972
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
695 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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| City |
Garden City, NY
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| Abstract |
This rags-to-riches, New York Times bestseller traces Irish immigrant Joseph Armaugh from the 1850s to the 1890s as he establishes his empire in the Western Pennsylvania Oil Rush and becomes the founding father of a powerful Irish-American clan. Armaugh’s son is assassinated during his campaign to become the first Catholic president.
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| Author Biography |
Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), born in Manchester, England, emigrated to America and graduated from the University of Buffalo. In 1937 Maxwell Perkins accepted her first manuscript, a Pittsburgh novel called Dynasty of Death, and it launched her productive career: more than 40 novels with sales of more than 30 million copies. She wrote bestselling historical romances, family sagas, biographical novels, and Christian fiction. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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| Time |
1850s-1910s
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