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The Titans
First published 1976
Louis Kent controls the family fortune but lacks the judgement or loyalty needed to preserve it. His cousin Jephtha supports abolition, while members of the younger generation are tied to the South, making the national argument over slavery an internal family crisis before the first shots are fired.
As secession becomes war, the Kents are drawn into battlefields, political intrigue and struggles over property and inheritance. The novel moves between Washington and the military fronts, connecting the collapse of a family dynasty with the collapse of the Union and refusing to separate the war’s violence from the system of slavery that produced the conflict.
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