'Beggar, Thief' is the second book in Irwin Shaw's legendary Jordache family saga, a sequel to 'Rich Man, Poor Man.' The turbulent sixties. Conservative 'Old America' ​​watches with horror and bewilderment as the youth rebels, refusing to live by the rules it dictates. Everything becomes new and unfamiliar: art, love, politics, lifestyle. Now the second generation of the family we knew from the first part of the saga—Billy Abbott and Wesley Jordache—must fight for their place in the sun.