“The Poorhouse and the Thief” is the second book of Irving Shaw’s legendary family saga about the Jordans, continuing the novel “Billionaire, Poor Man.”
The turbulent sixties. Conservative “Old America,” with horror and bewilderment, watches the youth revolt that refuses to live by the rules imposed on it. Everything becomes new and unfamiliar: art, love, politics, lifestyle. Now the second generation of the family known to us from the first part of the saga — Billy Abbot and Wesley Jordan — has to fight for their place in the sun.