Captains and the Kings

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Joseph Armagh was 13 when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen . It was the early 1850s, and he was a penniless orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some 70 years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multimillionaire, one of the most moving and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. Captains and the Kings is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top. ©1983 Taylor Caldwell (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC

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