About This Book
America's Epic Story of a Family, Born to Win, Daring to Love, and Enduring through Time
Sweeping through a quarter of the twentieth century, from the Ireland of the Easter Uprising to New York, Cambridge, San Francisco, and Hollywood, PASSAGE WEST is the turbulent, heroic saga of the Irish in America
NORA, the servant girl, who rose to a glittering place in society, but whose scandalous secret not even her children knew.
PATRICK, whose fight for the working man led to national prominence -- and grave danger when ruthless power barons tried to remove him.
TOM, the golden boy of Harvard, torn between marriage to FDR's cousin and the love of a simple, beautiful woman -- who could never be a president's wife.
PASSAGE WEST is a towering story of passionate hearts and great themes, a novel that stunningly portrays American social and political life between the two great wars.
