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John jakes is an amazing fictional, historian, writer to the point where you believe that theyre not a fictional family. His career began upon graduation, selling stories to pulp magazines. The bastard kent family series book 1 john jakes author 2012. Jakes, the author of over 60 books, including the eightpart kent family chronicles, the north and south trilogy, and innumerable short stories of the american west, returns to his welltrod civil war. Following that, he worked in the advertising while writing on the side and in. Jan 06, 2004 buy the bastard kent family chronicles reissue by jakes, john isbn.
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