The Burton Blake Sequel Completes The Dynastic Epic of The Revolutionist

​The American journey of three generations locks the neophyte company president, Burton Blake, in a vicious struggle with corporate intrigue,  economic greed, and social and financial corruption that feed on the underlying ageless tyranny of unregulated free enterprise.
 
Following World War II, Elias Blake’s youth is influenced by the adult world’s drive for personal material gain.  Over the next decades, he expands his parents’ original real estate empire into the diversified multi-divisional, multi-national corporation that he leaves to his son, Burton.
 
What events following World War II influence Elias Blake as a child and eventually as a young man and mold him to become the father whom his son despises? How was society different in the 1950s than it is today? What were the prevailing attitudes toward the role of women? How does Kristina Holtzman overcome those prejudices and social standards of behavior?
 
How would you compare Burton Blake’s life with that of his paternal great grandmother, Julie Josephson/Holtzman in the novel The Revolutionist?
What social, political, economic, and technological conditions are different? What has changed since the early 1900s?
 
What is Burton Blake’s reaction when he reads his father’s obituary? Why does he say what is being asked of him by Alan Erdman, the corporate attorney, is impossible?
 
Why does Burton Blake resist and try to deny his father’s legacy? How is he different than his father, Elias Blake, and why? Do they have any character and personality similarities? If so, how would you describe them?