It was the whip-end of an era-when innocence died and money
lust was-'enthroned. The new generation of Kents was locked in
a feverish race for wealth-even as Europe's millions poured
across the seas, to change the face of our nation and reap its
forgotten promise among the pushcarts of Mulberry Street, the c hardnosed docks of Boston, the steaming Barbary Coast.
Gideon Kent, his health failing, fears for the future of his lost dynasty. His actress-daughter, Eleanor, learns what it is to love an alien in the land of the free. Con-man Carter drifts cross-country in search of a lazy fortune. It falls to young Will, broken by his mother's madness, to redeem Philip Kent's American dream.