My Grandfathers' Clock

by Jack Bacon

My Grandfathers' Clock propels the reader through a thousand years of western civilization, as witnessed and shaped by twenty-eight generations of one real and remarkable family. Beginning with a knight in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, successive sons emerge from the Dark Ages, then shape their scientific and religious beliefs through the Renaissance and the Reformation, and into the modern world. Their lives reflect the full breadth of the Anglo-American experience, as they endure the plague, wars, and social, economic, and political revolutions. They settle new worlds, re-establish their faith, develop the modern code of laws. They explore the frontiers of land, of sea, of air, and of space. Throughout it all, the unbroken chain of family life passes incremental im-provements to later generations, to a point where the warring human species of the Dark Ages has united in its conquest of the heavens. My Grandfathers’ Clock is a measure of the human spirit, and a meter of our progress in society, our growth in faith and our revelations in science. It proves that we are the product of the toils and the hopes of countless generations. Every citizen is shown to have a role in shaping the future of his or her children, and an impact on all the generations that will follow. My Grandfathers’ Clock is a thousand-year testament that our future is indeed in peace, out among the stars.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published May 27, 2001