We Were the People : A Trilogy; Book One: Life; Jakob 1913-1938 (Electronic book text)

We Were the People is a trilogy spanning three generations of an American family and a century of American history. From the docks of Bremerhaven in 1892 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this is the biography of an American family watching history unfold. Epic in proportion, endearing in their imperfection, their story, like America, is both common and extraordinary. Book One traces Jakob's journey from homelessness in Germany to the upper echelons of success in American business and society. His is the first leg of the journey, sowing the seeds for his family's future successes and failures