Unafraid: A Novel of the Possible

Ashland, OR: Hellgate Press, 2009. First edition stated. First printing stated. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Cover has slight wear and soiling.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. [8], 324, [4] p. Two dates burn fiercely in the memory of millions of Americans: November 22, 1963 and September 11, 2001. These two tragedies bracket "Unafraid, " a story grounded in a simple question: what if the fatal bullet fired on that sunny Dallas afternoon had veered three inches off target? "Unafraid" lays out a compelling answer, rich with the public adventures and private dramas of 20th Century icons--J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir, the Beatles--played out on a transformed world stage. At the center of this parallel history is a leader who blows the sides out of conventional politics with a simple belief: a primary reason that idealistic goals are "impossible" to achieve is that we needlessly decide that they're impossible to achieve. With a tiny imaginary spin of history's wheel, "Unafraid" opens the gates to an America of realistic hope and possibility. The author dropped out of Harvard during the VIetnam War and became a lumberjack in Oregon. He was Oregon's first nomination fornthe JFK Profile in Courage Award. He was the target of an unsuccessful recall campaign while working in government. That experience directly informed the writing of this book.