The Young Savages [Mass Market Paperback]

Fred Mustard Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1999

Johnny Savage, having narrowly survived a ride through Cuba with old friend Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, returns to America to become involved with the movie business -- a business which poses a serious challenge to his fidelity. In Hong Kong, Johnny's half-sister Julie lives the high life with her Chinese husband Tim -- until he pays a hefty price for undermining the Dowager Empress's power.

But as the next generation of Savages grows, it provides more harrowing worries and embarassments than Johnny, Rachel or Julie could have ever imagined. Johnny and Rachel's daughter is a heavy-drinking swinger of the '20s; Rachel's son by Franco is involved with bootlegging and the mob; his sister marries a prominent Fascist in Italy; Johnny and Rachel's son has a string of romantic dalliances that earn him the nickname "the Naked Savage"; and Julie's daughter, Jasmine, is getting dangerously close to the new dictator of China.

Brought low by the Depression and their own weaknesses, will the Savages rise again?

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The fortunes of the Savage family, begun in The Magnificent Savages (LJ 4/15/96) continue in this next installment, which focuses on Justin Savage's two children. Half-Chinese and half-Caucasian, 27-year-old Julie is shunned by the snobbish New York social world of the 1880s, and so she heads west to begin a new life. Much to Papa's dismay, she marries a disreputable rogue who made his fortune in gambling and bordellos in San Francisco. Julie's younger brother Johnny, a rake dissatisfied with his position at his father's bank, takes off to explore the Dakotas with Teddy Roosevelt. The adventures of the younger generation take them to China, Hong Kong, England, Italy, and France, as they strive to find happiness and fulfillment. As always, Stewart's story is peppered with familiar names such as Jennie Randolph Churchill, Allan Pinkerton, Alfred Dreyfus, and numerous Rothschilds. Stewart paints a colorful picture of the lives of the rich and famous in late-19th-century America and Britain, and even if his characters sometimes seem larger than life, his tale is certainly entertaining. Recommended for collections where Stewart is in demand.?Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Stewart's sequel to The Magnificent Savages (1996) follows the family's son Johnny as he travels out West with his friend from Harvard, Teddy Roosevelt. Meanwhile, his half-Chinese sister Julie (daughter of Johnny's dad Justin and the Chinese pirate Chang-mei, whose release he had purchased from the dowager empress of China) travels across the Wild West to escape the New York society that shuns her Asian looks. No less than Allan Pinkerton is hired to find her, and he sends his crack agent Lance Morrow, who does too good a job and marries Julie. Meanwhile, Justin and his wife are hobnobbing in New York with Winston Churchill's grandfather. Stewart manages to touch on many of the historical issues and personages while rushing the characters around the globe and through the story. The book is filled with piracy, train robberies, love scenes, high-stakes living, and even a sword duel as the finale. Kevin Grandfield --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812571940
• ISBN-13: 978-0812571943
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,862,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars From someone named Mustard i expected a spicier book, August 5, 2004

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Manola Sommerfeld (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Young Savages (Hardcover)

What a hoot! This soap-opera script is too much. I have to admit i had no idea what this book was about when i picked it up from the shelf. Within a few pages, i read:

"Justin [...] smiled at the daughter he had sired with the exotic Chinese pirate Chang-mei, and whose freedom from the rascally Dowager Empress of China he had bought at such great expense".

And i said to myself: "WHAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!"

I continued reading till page 120 or so, but this style of writing started to grind on me. It's one thing to make Teddy Roosevelt one of your main characters, but to give him such silly dialog is quite another.

Although this book is amusing and useful in picking up ridiculously trivial factoids (did you ever know that Churchill's father contracted syphillis while a student at Oxford?), it is not worth my time when there are so many piles of books around me screaming "Read ME!!!"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Young Savages, December 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Young Savages (Mass Market Paperback)

'The Young Savages' by Fred Mustard Stewart is well written and very entertaining. It puts you in the nineteenth century into adventure after adventure. You ride a steam locomotive train and experience San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Even Teddy Roosevelt is in this book. You travel from New York to Italy and China. This book has it all. There is a train robbery, cattledrives, romance, murder, greed, espionage, prejudices, kidnapping, and even fencing duels. It is certainly an action-packed book and I recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, February 16, 1998

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Katie Miller (Ware Shoals, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Young Savages (Hardcover)

I recently read Stewart's prequel to this book, "The Magnificent Savages" and when I heard the the sequel was coming out I couldn't wait. This book is absolutely wonderful. If you loved his first book you'll enjoy this one too. It is full of history and adventure and love. I hope he continues with this family. They are wonderfully interesting.