Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty (1972) - Taylor Caldwell

Written by Taylor Caldwell
Read by Susie Berneis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

• Length: 36 hrs and 4 mins
• Release date: 10-31-16
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it.

Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850’s and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home.

CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself.

Taylor Caldwell has looked into America’s roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now.

The book is divided into to: Book 01 - Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, Book 02 - Rory Daniel Armagh

A reader’s comment…”For everyone who did or has ever voted in a presidential election, this is a must read. When an unknown can come out of the woodwork, unstudied and untested, without any sort of litmus test, and become our president, we must ask ourselves, “Who is he and who owns him?’ Read this book! It is haunting!”

Captains and the Kings was also a TV mini-series.