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- Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States, along with his younger brother and baby sister, only for their parents to die shortly afterwards. Joseph Armagh befriends a Lebanese immigrant, and both are taken under the tutelage of an American plutocrat. The novel is an inter-generational saga that focuses on the themes of the American dream, discrimination, bigotry, and history that is being made by a cabal of the rich and powerful. The saga nears its end when Armagh succeeds in making his eldest son, Rory (modeled after John Fitzgerald Kennedy), a senator. When Rory is going to become the first Catholic President of the United States, he is assassinated by the cabal of the rich and powerful. The novel was adapted as a 1976 television miniseries of the same name, starring Richard Jordan as Joseph Armagh. (en)
- Capitani e Re (Captains and the Kings) è un romanzo di Taylor Caldwell, pubblicato negli Stati Uniti nel 1972. In Italia è apparso nel 1974, nella traduzione di Adriana Macchetta. Dal libro, nel 1976, è stata tratta la miniserie televisiva Capitani e Re. Il libro è stato tradotto in francese, tedesco, spagnolo, turco, olandese e altre lingue. (it)
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- Capitani e Re (Captains and the Kings) è un romanzo di Taylor Caldwell, pubblicato negli Stati Uniti nel 1972. In Italia è apparso nel 1974, nella traduzione di Adriana Macchetta. Dal libro, nel 1976, è stata tratta la miniserie televisiva Capitani e Re. Il libro è stato tradotto in francese, tedesco, spagnolo, turco, olandese e altre lingue. (it)
- Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States, along with his younger brother and baby sister, only for their parents to die shortly afterwards. Joseph Armagh befriends a Lebanese immigrant, and both are taken under the tutelage of an American plutocrat. The novel is an inter-generational saga that focuses on the themes of the American dream, discrimination, bigotry, and history that is being made by a cabal of the rich and powerful. The saga nears its end when Armagh succeeds in making his eldest son, Rory (modeled after John Fitzgerald Kennedy), a senator. When Rory is going to become the first Catholic President o (en)
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