Jack Salinger is a cynical, pot smoking psychiatrist who practices on-line in a radically altered America of the future. He lives in a hermetically sealed penthouse in one of the American cities that survived a devastating war against foreign and domestic terrorism. Brutal class warfare between the rich and poor has resulted in the overthrow of America's representative democracy. An economically based aristocracy has been in control of the government since Second Independence Day, the anniversary of a domestic coup that brought the wealthy to absolute political power.

Miranda Lee-Weston,...

"Dominique Cantrell, First Citizen of America" is the second of three general/science fiction novels concerned with the future of American society.

The stability of our representative democracy is taken for granted by most Americans. And yet, a careful study of history suggests that economic, social, and political forces at work in contemporary America represent an internal threat to the survival of the greatest democratic republic in human history.

The novels comprising this trilogy are concerned with these forces and serve as cautionary tales. "The Certification of America, Volume I"...

Abraham Lincoln warned that "the approach of danger" to our Republic would come from within, that we would be the "authors of our own destruction." Lincoln was confident that "all the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined . could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years."

The stability of our representative democracy is taken for granted by most Americans. And yet, a careful study of history suggests that economic, social, and political forces at work in contemporary America and the world at large represent...