It is 1955 and Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage and take his family into Legitimate businesses.

"In 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth biggest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins." "In the summer of 1948 fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet - and fall in love - four years later, and for the next twenty years this...