The Americans

Name: The Americans
Rating: 4.4 (7756 reviews)

by John Jakes Book 8 in the The Kent Family Chronicles series.

First published 1979

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In the final volume, Gideon Kent’s failing health leaves the future of the family uncertain and its once-formidable dynasty in ruins. Young Will inherits the task of reconnecting relatives whose lives now extend from eastern cities and tenements to western ranches and new commercial enterprises.

The closing story moves through the early 1890s, when industrial wealth, political corruption, mass immigration and disasters such as the Johnstown Flood expose the instability beneath national prosperity. The Kents can no longer restore Philip Kent’s original world; they must decide which parts of the family legacy deserve preservation in a rapidly modernising United States.