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Author Jakes, John, 1932-2023

Title American dreams / John Jakes.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Dutton, [1998]
©1998

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 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F JAKES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F JAKES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION JAKES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION JAKES, JOHN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC JAKES    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F JAKES c.3  Check Shelf
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Description x, 495 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 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.
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. By the author of Homeland.
Subject Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
German Americans -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
German Americans. (OCoLC)fst00941308
Motion picture actors and actresses. (OCoLC)fst01027096
Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Actresses -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 0525944370 (alk. paper)
9780525944379 (alk. paper)
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