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American dreams / John Jakes.

Summary:

The continuing saga of the Crowns of Chicago, a family founded by a German immigrant who became a beer baron. The protagonists are an actress in Hollywood, a filmmaker documenting World War I and a college dropout who races cars for Henry Ford.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0525944370
  • ISBN: 9780525944379
  • Physical Description: x, 495 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Dutton, [1998]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Dreamers -- Actress -- Drifter -- Paul and His Wife -- Ilsa's Worry -- A Dream of Speed -- Paul's Pictures -- The General and His Children -- Courage from Carl -- Obligatory Scene -- Eastbound -- Striving -- Adrift in New York -- Fritzi and Oh-Oh -- Smash-up -- Paul's Anchor -- Three Witches and Four Actresses -- Grosse Pointe Games -- Bad Omens -- Confessions -- Reunions -- Model T -- Jinxed? -- Tess -- Jesse and Carl -- Rehearsal for a Tragedy -- Tragedy -- Closed -- Paul and Harry -- Boom Times -- "Speed King of the World" -- A Desperate Call -- Savagery -- Separation -- Postcard from Indianapolis -- Pictures -- Ilsa to the Rescue -- Biograph -- Westward Ho -- Blanket Company -- Our Heroine -- Onward, If Not Exactly Upward -- New York Music -- Sammy -- Signs of Success -- Threats -- Attack -- B.B. Decides -- A Toast to War -- In the Subway -- Further Westward Ho -- California -- Welcome to Los Angeles -- Wrong Turn -- Liberty Rising -- Fritzi and Carl -- Mickey Finn -- No Laughing Matter -- Inferno -- Carl Mows the Grass -- Decision -- Nightmare -- Loyal -- Flying Circus -- Viva Villa! -- English Edgar -- Inceville -- Mercenaries -- The Day Things Slipped -- Crash Landing -- Fritzi and Loy -- That Sunday -- Battlefields -- In Belgium -- Troubled House -- Taking Sides -- "Truth or Nothing" -- Fritzi and Her Three Men -- Revelations -- Detroit Again -- Million-Dollar Carpet -- End of the Party -- U-Boat -- Winter of Discontent -- Air War -- Torpedoed -- Marching -- Troubled Nation.
Subject:
German Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Fiction.
Families > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
Actors > Fiction.
German Americans > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 43 of 44 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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