n nTwo brothers, as different as night and day: one, charming and ruthless, buys his way into Harvard, Wall Street, and high society; the other brother remains by his mothers side and makes his way to the top without the influence of money or prestige.n nRaised in separate worlds, these brothers are bound by a bitter rivalry for riches and power, but mostly, for the exciting, wildly captivating woman they fight all their lives to possess, a woman whose passion for one destroys her love for the other.n nTheir story consumes an American century, spanning decades of splendor, struggle, upheaval, and war. Its an absorbing saga of innocent dreams and green desire corrupted by gilded temptation.n