The Warriors Author:John Jakes The American Bicentennial Series Volume VI - The Kent Family Chronicles — The glittering sage of our America-and the people who made her great. — As the Civil War draws to its inevitable climax, THE WARRIORS carries the turbulent chronicle of the divided Kent family to far-reaching new battlefields. A gracious Southern plantation ravaged by Union... more » soldiers as the blacks cry for "Jubilee" . . . the bright trail westward blazed by the Union Pacific Railroad, and its lusty Traveling Towns and savage Indian raids . . . the plush eastern mansions of the Robber Barons--Gould, Fisk and Drew . . . the seething conclaves of the new trade unions--these are the scenes of a nation's rebirth and of the Kents' private, impassioned wars . . . These are the backdrops as well for stirring romantic entanglements. When young Jeremiah Kent is tempted by a lascivious Southern belle into a web of lust and murder . . . and Michael Boyle longs for a lovely immigrant girl, Hannah . . . the destiny of the Kent dynasty is set on an irreversible course into the great American future.« less