BORN WITH THE CENTURY BY WILLIAM KINSOLVING IN SOUTH AFRICA

 Born With The Century is an epic novel, as vast as America itself. Magnus MacPherson sails away from the life of a penniless Scottish crofter to realise the ultimate American dream of riches and fame. Here are the real people, real places and real events of a tumultuous century. As he builds his whiskey empire through the wild days of Prohibition, Macpherson mixes with larger-than-life underworld figures like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Bugs Moran. Then, with growing success and respectability, he crosses the path of old Joe Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and others whose names have gone down in history. Yet Magnus' story contains its own tragic irony - for even as he is building his fortune, he is destroying the family that will inherit it. Hard cover, with dust jacket in good condition. Black boards are good and the spine is strong. Rubber stamp marking on the first page.