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Book Review of The Glitter and the Gold

The Glitter and the Gold
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In this epic novel of a rich and powerful family whose lives and fortunes are part of California's dramatic history. FRED MUSTARD STEWART tops his best-sellers Century and Ellis Island. THE GLITTER AND THE GOLD is a dazzling, robust saga of the Collingwoods of California, heirs to wealth, ambition, and lust. And against the vivid backdrop of time and change-earthquake, fire, riot, and the clash of cultures-he brings to rousing life five generations of this remarkagle family whose passions were as boundless as California in the making......