Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. And it will prove irresistible.”- Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan We’ll export our dreams, our language, our culture, our way of life. We’ll emerge from this war victorious and unscathed, and become bankers to the world.
Because our dominance won’t arise from subjugating peoples. Hah! You’re all looking at me like I’ve one foot in the funny farm.
Not Genghis Khan or the Tatars or Napoleon’s France. “I see the rise of this country to a height no country has occupied, ever,” he said quietly. “ The old man leaned forward and took a long breath.
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