Jericho's Daughters Author:Paul I. Wellman Against the familiar backdrop of cutthroat politics and business practices, rigid wealth, power and social structures, a story emerges of a loveless marriage -- and a marriageless love. Wistart Wedge had inherited the Jericho Clarion from his late mother, the domineering Algeria Wedge, but with it, none of her business acumen or character. ... more » Where Wistart is weak, his wife Mary Agnes is strong. She has nothing but scorn for her husband, spending most of her time in the livelier elite spots of the globe fiananced by her own personal fortune of seemingly unlimited wealth.
When Wistart's newspaper almost folds up in the face of competition from the yellow-press Sentinel, Mary Agnes makes a swift return to Jericho, not to help Wistart, but to protect herself from the one man could ruin her: Erskine de Lacey.
Jericho's Daughters brings the saga of the fortunes of the Jericho, Kanasas residents into contemporary time, closing with this engrossing chapter in the sweeping tale of the heirs of its virtues and evils. « less