American Dreams is the sequel to Homeland, a novel in which John Jakes explores the immigrant experience in this country. In Homeland, young Paul Crown leaves Germany to seek a better life […]
John Jakes Brings the Immigration Experience to Life in His Novel Homeland
In the Afterword of his novel, Homeland, John Jakes explains that he purposely had this novel pick up in the year 1891, the same year that the final novel of his Kent […]
Book Review: Heaven and Hell by John Jakes
Heaven and Hell is the final book in the trilogy about the Civil War by John Jakes. In the series he introduced us to the Main family from South Carolina and the […]
Book Review: Love and War by John Jakes
This novel is the second in Jakes’ Civil War trilogy. Love and War picks up the lives of the Main and Hazard families right where North and South left off. The Mains […]
Book Review – North And South by John Jakes: Two Families, One Fate
If you’ve only seen the mini-series by the same name, you’re missing out on quite a lot. There is more of everything in John Jakes’ novel North And South: more characters, more […]
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