

Charleston
Author: John Jakes
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 18 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 01/04/2011
Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction, Sagas, Historical Fiction
Author: John Jakes
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 18 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 01/04/2011
Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction, Sagas, Historical Fiction
John Jakes is the bestselling author of Charleston, the eight-volume Kent Family Chronicles, The North and South Trilogy, On Secret Service, California Gold, Homeland, and American Dreams. Descended from a soldier of the Virginia Continental Line who fought in the American Revolution, Jakes is one of today's most distinguished authors of historical fiction. He lives in South Carolina and Florida.
This is the first book that I have read by John Jakes. As a fan of Charleston and historical fiction I decided to not let its size daunt me and found it quite hard to put down. Me. Jakes clearly has an impressive knowledge of US history in the Deep South during the 18th and 19th centuries. I found h......more
Actual Rating: 2.5 (HALF stars! Do you hear me Goodreads moderators? HALF STARS!!) When I first read this book, I assumed that it had been written in the nineties. It was actually published in 2003, but it hit a lot of the beats that were already overplayed by that time. In 2020, this book feels soli......more
Jakes follows the Bell family from the early 1700s to around 1880. He breaks it down into three mini-books. The first deals with Charleston during the Revolutionary War. I never realized that Charleston was an occupied city controled by the British. The second book deals with those years leading up......more