Captains and Kings
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1976
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| Publication Type |
Television Script
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| Language |
English
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| Abstract |
A television adaption of the 1972 novel, which traces Irish immigrant Joseph Armaugh (Richard Jordan) 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, Rory (Perry King), is assassinated during his campaign to become the first Catholic president.
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| Notes |
Jordan won the Golden Globe for Best TV Actor.
The series also stars Patty Duke, Blair Brown, Jane Seymour, and Henry Fonda.
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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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| Published |
unpublished
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