Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
This is the saga of the Sinclairs, a wealthy family whose patriarch, Bradford Sinclair, Sr., committed suicide after the stock market crash of 1929. For the surviving widow and her children, the Sinclair legacy meant bankruptcy, disgrace and broken-off lives. As the Depression grew deeper, they struggled not only to survive, but to make their mark on the rapidly changing
world around them.
Brad. the eldest, with nothing but courage and a gifted tongue, rose high in the Roosevelt administration. Jeremy, with nothing but a writer’s dream, became a first-rate news correspondent in Hitler’s Germany. Pamela worked her way up as the most valuable employee of a Senate committee, engaged to Washington’s most eligible bachelor. Young June Alice. tragically fated to live the life of a migrant farm worker; while Gordon survived the rigors of West Point to be stationed in China on the eve of the Manchurian invasion.
This is the saga of the Sinclairs, a wealthy family whose patriarch, Bradford Sinclair, Sr., committed suicide after the stock market crash of 1929. For the surviving widow and her children, the Sinclair legacy meant bankruptcy, disgrace and broken-off lives. As the Depression grew deeper, they struggled not only to survive, but to make their mark on the rapidly changing
world around them.
Brad. the eldest, with nothing but courage and a gifted tongue, rose high in the Roosevelt administration. Jeremy, with nothing but a writer’s dream, became a first-rate news correspondent in Hitler’s Germany. Pamela worked her way up as the most valuable employee of a Senate committee, engaged to Washington’s most eligible bachelor. Young June Alice. tragically fated to live the life of a migrant farm worker; while Gordon survived the rigors of West Point to be stationed in China on the eve of the Manchurian invasion.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub. Co., (1981).
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Collection
Physical description
825 p.; 21 inches