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 twentieth-century America.
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...