"I love Newport because it is history preserved,” John Jakes writes in the afterword of his latest novel, The Gods of Newport. “I contrast this with my first adult visit to Boston, a week spent there to research The Rebels, the second volume of the Kent Family Chronicles. Eagerly I went to the site of the Boston Tea Party. I found real estate built on landfill, a dull green office building, a bronze plaque. “‘Developers’ have ‘developed’ and are continuing to ‘develop’ our h


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