Books three and four of a sweeping ten-volume series that follows a single family through the twentieth-century. Each book is set against the background of a successive decade, and the historic events, inventions, and cultural milieu of the featured decade are woven into the fictional narrative.The Dixons, a black family fleeing the discrimination of the south, meet up with Rocco and with Nell Aldrich -- and the Dixon and Aldrich children manage to...