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Historical person
Thomas Edison is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In John Jakes’s Homeland, historical figures including Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Buffalo Bill connect the family’s private ambitions to a nation being remade by technology, labour conflict and mass entertainment.
Series
The Crown Family Saga follows a German-American family in Chicago as immigration, industrial wealth and new forms of entertainment transform the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Beginning with young Pauli Kroner’s arrival from Berlin, the novels explore the household of brewery magnate Joe Crown…
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