His ambitions extend to his children, especially his eldest son, whom he's determined will become the first Irish Catholic U.S. Nice Guy), becomes wealthy, powerful, a force to be reckoned with, and the family name becomes known throughout the country. You have an Irish immigrant family, enduring hardship, poverty and prejudice, the eldest son, resentful and angry, determined to change his fate, through hard work and ambition (and not being Mr. Caldwell got the inspiration for her story. It's not difficult to figure out where Ms. I can't think of one character in the novel that wasn't both well written and interesting, even people you don't particularly like, even minor characters off center stage. It would have to be quite a story to hold your attention, and for me, this was quite the story, caught my attention and never let go, so all those pages just flew by fast. When a book has a lot of pages, it's easy to b put off, as you have to invest a lot of time in it, and it just may not be worth it. 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. And Joseph will settle for nothing less than the pinnacle of glory: seeing his boy crowned the first Catholic president of the United States. He orchestrates his eldest son Rory's political ascent from the offspring of an Irish immigrant to US senator. 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. Joseph's journey will catapult him to the highest echelons of power and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. Agnes's Orphanage and make a home for them all. Joseph toils at whatever work will pay a living wage and plans for the day he can take his siblings away from St.
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 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. New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power.
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