"I guess I need to tell you where I am and why." Timothy Adams,a long-time critic of the Bush Administration's illegal wars and policies, gets tapped by the political base in Honolulu, Hawaii to manage one of the state offices charged with verifying voter and candidate identification and balloting for the national electoral cycle of 2008. He is present when the controversy over the candidacy of then Senator Barack H. Obama, who claims to have been born "in hospital," "in Hawaii," breaks; first on the local and then the national scene. In the face of mounting evidence that the senator's...