The Kent Family Chronicles continue as abolitionist Jeptha Kent and his sons find themselves on opposite sides of the Civil War.
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The Titans begins at the very beginning of the American Civil War and continues until 1862. Louis Kent, son of Amanda Kent, has taken control of the family business and fortunes, but, despite being his mothers son, is turning out to be a heartless, profiteering opportunist.Jephta Kent is working on the familys newspaper when, through dramatic circumstances, he meets his son Gideon from whom he has been separated for many years. His former wife has remarried to an actor named Lamont, who is a fanatical supporter of Southern rights and who is secretly plotting to seize the fortune left to Jephtas sons, to further the Southern cause. As America is drawn into a war between the North and South, Gideon becomes a cavalry officer and takes part in many terrible battles. The book ends with the news that Gideon is missing in action--can't wait to start Book 6-The Warriors.
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Switching the focus to Jephtha and fam ...,
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John Jakes charges onward in his chronicles of Kent family, jumping ahead a few years for the fifth book (Amanda's son Louis is now a grown, married man) but slowing the pace down and really digging in. It's no wonder -- the setting for this one is the Civil War, and Jakes keeps it mainly at the beginning of the war, 1861.
Whereas the fourth book was fully Amanda Kent's story, "The Titans" trades off with her cousin Jephtha -- seen only in letters and brief encounters until now -- and his ex-wife Fan, her new husband Edward, and Jephtha's oldest son Gideon Kent, now a soldier following, certainly, the family legacy. On the ugly battlefield, Gideon comes of age and learns his true merit in much the same way Philip Kent did a hundred years earlier. Woven through the story of Gideon and the young lady he loves, Margaret Marble, is an argument on the brutality, honor, but seeming futility of war. Unlike Anne Ware, who had only admired Philip after he uniformed up, Margaret can't stand the thought of Gideon taking to the battlefield, seeing it as the most foolish form of self-destruction. Even more important than this issue of war, though, is the idea of truth being revealed, of deceptions being uncovered, as Jephtha struggles to reconnect with the sons he's been separated from. The redemption of this "fallen" clergyman (now serving as a journalist, of all things) is cathartic for several people. I'm loving this series, and I'm charging onward, myself, to the sixth book ...
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Not bad reading. It gets confusing trying to keep up with characters from book to book.
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WHEN JEPHTHA KENT started across the morass of Pennsylvania Avenue that Monday morning, he wondered if he was the only person in the whole town who was out of step. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Aunt Eliza, New York, First Virginia, Jephtha Kent, Washington City, Harper's Ferry, Canterbury Hall, Jack Harris, Edward Lamont, Bull Run, Gideon Kent, War Department, Van Dyne, Colonel Stuart, General Scott, President Street, Josiah Cheever, Colonel Lee, Eliza Marble, Henry House Hill, Cub Run, Long Bridge, Sixth Massachusetts, Theo Payne, Buena Vista New!
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WHEN JEPHTHA KENT started across the morass of Pennsylvania Avenue that Monday morning, he wondered if he was the only person in the whole town who was out of step. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Aunt Eliza, New York, First Virginia, Jephtha Kent, Washington City, Harper's Ferry, Canterbury Hall, Jack Harris, Edward Lamont, Bull Run, Gideon Kent, War Department, Van Dyne, Colonel Stuart, General Scott, President Street, Josiah Cheever, Colonel Lee, Eliza Marble, Henry House Hill, Cub Run, Long Bridge, Sixth Massachusetts, Theo Payne, Buena Vista New!
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- George Washington (Encyclopedia of Presidents) by Zachary Kent on page 101, and page 103
- San Antonio (A Downtown America Book) by Sally Lee on page 104
- Rip Van Winkle by Joseph, III Jefferson on page 81
- Old Abe (The Wisconsin Experience) by Carole Marsh on page 376
- Mexico City (World Cities) by James E. Davis on page 436
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