Young Nick Savage came through the Roaring Twenties poorer but unbroken. He takes control of the family fortunes to help preserve what they have left . . . and to help his friend FDR help the rest of the country do the same.

Meanwhile Nick's sister Brook is in Paris, where she and her aristocratic husband fight to hold on to the dreams of their youth . . . and watch the political storm-clouds gathering over Germany.

In the far East, the Asian branch of the family has achieved great wealth and respectability. Now they struggle to keep what they have built in the face of the growing power of the Rising Sun.

The branches of the Savage clan have been spread wide as the world careens from the excesses of the Jazz Age to the cruel wake-up call of the Depression, from the terrors of one world war to the start of another global conflict. As we follow this family through heartbreak and triumph, we see the history of three continents unfold: Europe, tired from a devastating war; Asia, struggling to throw off imperialism; and finally, America, poised on the brink of desperation . . . and the dawn of its greatest power.