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Captains and the Kings

The Story of an American Dynasty

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Joseph Armagh was 13 when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850s, and he was a penniless orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some 70 years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multimillionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. Captains and the Kings is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top.

©1983 Taylor Caldwell (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance
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I first read this book in the 1970s it at that time gave me a dramatic sense of politics and it’s treachery that I’ve held all my life.
Now nearing three score year and ten in years. I totally believe it is as vital a read now as it was on published. Perhaps loosely based on Kennedy brood. In the proceeding years I ask the listener to decide who are “the captains and the kings”

Masterpiece

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This book is a marathon to listen to - but well worth the effort. Excellently researched. Variations on Kennedy family rise from Irish Catholic obscure background, rise in the USA and then assassination. I may have struggled to actually turn the numerous pages in a paper book, but the narrator made the listening so very easy and held my interest even through the technical bits. It might be advisable to jot down names and relationships of some of the more obscure characters as you just never know when they might turn up later.

Marathon saga!

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Thought i wouldn't make it to the end of this long saga...but I did and was pleased with myself....it was a bit superlative and I thought it really could be shorter...but as it got going the descriptive reading went unnoticed and I began to really enjoy the story of struggle and determination for this Irish family...so stick with it and you will not be disappointed...

A Long Slog!!! at first....

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A wonderful book. Interesting theories about historical events. Thought- provoking, beautifully written, beautifully read.

Wonderful book!!

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The story from beginning to end was full of one family’s unbelievable tragedy and unhappiness, although Rich this book makes you realise that money doesn’t buy happiness!

It was such a tragic story , from beginning to end! I couldn’t stop listening , it was Brilliant !

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