The Warriors Author:John Jakes The American Bicentenial series Volume V1 of the Kent Family Chrociles — 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 soldiers as the blacks cry for jubilee...the bright trail westward blaz... more »ed by the union pacific railroad, and its lusty traveling towns and savage undian raids...the plush eastern mansions of the robber barons-guild, Fisk and Drew...the seething conclaves of the new trade unions-theese are the scenes of a nation's rebirth and of the Kent's private, impassioned wars...Theese are the backdrops as well for stirring romantic entanglements. When young Jeremiah Kent is tempted by a luscious 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