A Novel Approach to the American Dream

A Novel Approach to the American Dream tells how thirteen former presidents work together to avert an existential threat to the nation they once led. That threat is an end to our experiment in self-government and the beginning of the American nightmare.

Meeting in the Blue Room of the White House, one floor below the Oval Office, they review the origins the American dream, reflect on their colleagues' use of the phase and try to devise a more futuristic, more vigorous version of the dream. Bound by a pledge to tell the truth and only act with unanimity, they must put aside their personal animosities, hyper-partisanship and deep policy differences.

And yet, even as they reach unanimity, they face the wrath of the man upstairs: Donald J. Trump. Intent on being part of a global kleptocracy, this raging narcissist envies the kings and tzars of centuries past. And everyday Americans are meant to be the subjects, servants and serfs of his American nightmare.

Impossible? Probably. Surreal? Certainly. But then what steps would YOU take to preserve our representative democracy? To prevent an American nightmare? Maybe, just maybe, this novel is your first step towards preserving the American dream for generations to come.