{"product_id":"american-values-jim-williams-9781908943859","title":"American Values","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConspiracies are not meant to be understood.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica in the Fall of 1963. The aging \"Big A\" has been President since he beat Roosevelt in 1932 and passed the Defense of American Values Act to establish his dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years on, the United States is locked in a war to conquer South America. Racial minorities are persecuted, homosexuals killed, and African Americans have disappeared from public view. The country is worn-out and dilapidated, and people wait to see who will succeed the Old Man. In high places, Nixon and the Kennedys maneuver against each other under the watchful eye of J. Edgar Hoover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Bennet is a foreign correspondent for the \u003cem\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, posted in Washington and treading warily in the political minefield. He is helped by his best friend, Jeb Lyman, but it is a dangerous friendship since Jeb is a high official in the feared General State Police and deeply implicated in the politics of the regime. Yet Harry has to trust him to protect the woman he loves, Maria, whose racial ancestry may not stand up to investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry learns of a mystery patient secluded in one of Washington's hospitals. Following up the lead takes him across the decaying landscape of an oppressed America to Chicago, Las Vegas, Louisiana and Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately his investigations embroil him in a murderous conspiracy to inherit the Presidency and he finally obtains an answer to the terrible secret hidden behind the public face of American Values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908943858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908943859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marble City Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.85d","brand":"Jim Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799035359487,"sku":"9781908943859","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-values-jim-williams-9781908943859","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}