{"product_id":"the-soil-and-the-seed-timothy-eytcheson-9798198511477","title":"The Soil and the Seed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat would you do if you could?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn election night, a newly elected president makes a private promise to the man who has spent thirty years building the mechanism to keep it. Six weeks later, 246 ordinary Americans - teachers, truck drivers, nurses, pastors, factory workers - receive hand-delivered letters informing them they have been selected by geometric algorithm to serve in a secret Constitutional Convention. They are told nothing about what they will be asked to decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver six months in a sealed chamber, they debate and ratify sixteen amendments to the United States Constitution - healthcare, education, gun reform, term limits, Supreme Court restructuring, the right to choose - voting by sealed ballot in a booth where no one will ever know which way they went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen they face the hardest question: the Ten Lifetimes Initiative. A one-time wealth restructuring affecting roughly a thousand people. Student and medical debt eliminated overnight. The national debt put on a thirty-year clock. Universal healthcare funded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll effective July 4th.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soil and the Seed\u003c\/i\u003e is told through seven lives the decision reshapes: a $42 billion tech CEO who watches the exits close from the forty-eighth floor of the TransAmerica Pyramid. A steelworker who built his company from borrowed gloves and a foreman's advice. An ER doctor whose patient can finally afford to come back. A family whose student loans vanish between one breath and the next. A young couple holding a newborn and a fourteen-thousand-dollar hospital bill. A financial smuggler running gold across the Canadian border. And forty years later, a journalist standing on the National Mall, reading aloud a dead architect's letter about seeds and soil to a country still living inside the answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is fiction. The question is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Eytcheson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198511477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Timothy Eytcheson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174122856703,"sku":"9798198511477","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-soil-and-the-seed-timothy-eytcheson-9798198511477","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}