THE SECOND GENERATION
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THE SECOND GENERATION Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 45 min
Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and Naples, 1798 to 1868. Five brothers out of one house in the Frankfurt Judengasse are left a business, a will and a rule: the firm belongs to the sons, the daughters are paid out, and no outsider may open the books.
THE SECOND GENERATION Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 10 min
Cleveland, New York and Pocantico Hills, 1874 to 1960. An only son is raised to inherit the largest fortune in the world and is trained for it the way a clerk is trained: an allowance, a ledger, a penny a fly, a receipt for everything. John D.
THE SECOND GENERATION Book 3
4 parts · 18 h 33 min
Stockholm, 1856 to 1982. A former naval officer opens a private bank, has an enormous family, and dies leaving both to sons who barely agree.
THE SECOND GENERATION Book 4
4 parts · 13 h 58 min
Montreal, Beverly Hills and Asbury Park, 1889 to 2025.
THE SECOND GENERATION Book 5
4 parts · 15 h 12 min
Japan and Texas, 1867 to 1999. A carpenter's son in Shizuoka builds a loom that stops itself, sells the foreign rights to a Lancashire firm, and hands the money to his son with an instruction. On the Chita peninsula a sake house in its fifteenth generation raises an eldest son who will not take it.
THE SECOND GENERATION Book 6
4 parts · 15 h 24 min
Omaha, Kansas City, Baldwin Park, Alba, Washington and Seoul, 1915 to 2025. A Russian immigrant who never learns to read English sells furniture on a markup so thin her suppliers take her to court. A jeweler's grandson stops a stranger on a sidewalk and sells him three generations of the family firm.