All the Queen's Horses and All the Queen's Men

ISBN-13: 9781329095885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 266 str.

Chase Baldewyn

Opis

Follow Summer Lambert as megastore money paves the way to the top of the equestrian sport of competition show riding for her, and her daughter, Berkeley. With her plutocrat father-in-law, Rolf Lambert, as her money and power coach, and self-serving Denise as her trainer, Summer clears the path to the top of riding for herself and her daughter by eliminating any competition from the middle class riders. But without recognizing the essential worth of excellence, the vital strengthening effect of competition, and the fundamental interdependence of all classes in our society, has Summer really won? Or has Summer simply revealed the epidemic of lies and spin in our society, driven by the covert, greedy actions of the plutocrats? Has she simply exposed the existence of a new form of royal oppression in America; an ideology that is eliminating the American Dream and turning America into a two-tiered society of an upper royal class and a lower service class, rather than one with a strong, producer middle class?

All the QueenÕs Horses and All the QueenÕs Men is the first book in a trilogy of political novels by Chase Baldewyn. Written before TrumpÕs campaign and election, the trilogy provides insight as to how and why Donald Trump would be elected. The trilogy is based on ethnographic research conducted over a decade on billionaire plutocratic families in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The novel reveals how and why plutocrat billionaires deceive the public and value loyalty over competence as Donald Trump seemingly does, and how plutocrats have worked to eliminate the middle class through deceptive egalitarianism and philanthropy while concurrently disparaging the need for excellence outside of their small peer group of billionaire businessmen. The novelÕs protagonist is a plutocrat billionaire, Rolf Lambert, whose deceptive populism is revealed as actual elitism when advising his granddaughter, Berkeley, to model herself after British royalty for which Berkeley pays a heavy price at storyÕs end.