From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of North and South:
The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family's rise in
20th-century America.
The tide of the twentieth century is rising upon the world, and on its
crest rides the Crown family.
Young Pauli Kroner, freshly arrived in America from the streets of
Berlin, makes his way to the mansion of his millionaire uncle in
Chicago, looking to fulfill his dreams. His uncle, Joe Crown, is a
self-made brewery tycoon who rules his domain with an iron
hand--especially when it comes to his own family of defiantly rebellious
children and a wife yearning for her own liberation.
In this new world, Pauli will rise as his own man and find his destiny
in the early days of motion pictures. Surrounded by relations close and
distant, proud and vengeful, each struggling to find themselves at the
dawn of a new era, he will witness and experience the violence of the
Pullman Strike, and find love in the arms of a woman who can never be
his as he follows the march of history, intertwined with such figures as
the audacious Theodore Roosevelt, the ruthless Thomas Edison, the fading
western icon Buffalo Bill, and many more.
Named a New York Times Notable Book, Homeland is a "first-rate
historical . . . chock-full of fascinating period detail, [Jakes's]
captivating story brings to life the sounds, smells and tastes of
turn-of-the-century America in a manner comparable to Michener's
Hawaii and Doctorow's Ragtime" (Publishers Weekly).
